740 Quotes Regarding Wisdom


It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth Kenny

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Jim Carrey

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
John Wooden

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams

Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron