740 Quotes Regarding Wisdom


The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen

Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson

Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster

Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phil Jackson

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Walter Benjamin

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.
William Temple

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Evelyn Underhill

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Torquato Tasso

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
John Cheever

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha