740 Quotes Regarding Wisdom


Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
Chen Shui-bian

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
William Eardley IV

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson Mizner

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
Deepak Chopra

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?
Gwyneth Paltrow

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
Robert Hall

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
Deepak Chopra

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh Billings

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb Colton

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Janet Jackson

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville