740 Quotes Regarding Wisdom

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Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
Tom Hopkins

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. Fiedler

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
Morihei Ueshiba

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Aeschylus

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Jean Paul

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Alfred Austin

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Shinichi Suzuki

Every silver lining has a cloud.
Mary Kay Ash

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson Little

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
Wilson Mizner

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Desiderius Erasmus