Wisdom

Quote link. Other quotes about: lies Other quotes by Romanian Proverb.: "Under a ragged coat lies wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never man Other quotes by James Ramsey.: "It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp."
Quote link. Other quotes about: important Other quotes by Theodore Isaac Rubin.: "Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes by Lord Ritchie-Calder.: "Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good change grow Other quotes by Molly Ringwald.: "If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Lord John Russell.: "A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life nature Other quotes by Dr. Jonas Salk.: "Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope christ die right god world peace love sin forgiveness rich Other quotes by Paul Sadler.: "It has been said that God's gift is also indescribable because of the grace by which it is given. God, who is rich in mercy, gave the world the gift of His dear Son while we were at enmity with Him. Paul says 'But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us' (Rom. 58). Therefore, in Him we are freely given all things redemption, forgiveness of sins, righteousness, peace, hope, wisdom and knowledge."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little people good success Other quotes by William Saroyan.: "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people good Other quotes by William Saroyan.: "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."
Quote link. Other quotes by Marilyn vos Savant.: "To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
Quote link. Other quotes by David Schoenbrun.: "History's lessons are no more enlightening than the wisdom of those who interpret them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america life Other quotes by Benno C. Schmidt, Jr..: "Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wise born Other quotes by John Selden.: "No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience life nature Other quotes by Samuel Smiles.: "Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books experience small life book nature Other quotes by Samuel Smiles.: "The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Walter Stegner.: "Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky.: "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness Other quotes by Sophocles.: "Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."
Quote link. Other quotes by Laurence Sterne.: "Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Terence.: "That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: success past future Other quotes by Dr. Dale E. Turner.: "Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die live life making Other quotes by Miguel de Unamuno.: "Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live people understand soul Other quotes by Unknown.: "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason god answer Other quotes by Unknown.: "If your prayers were always answered, you'd have a reason to doubt the wisdom of God."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope man heaven Other quotes by Alfred Victor Vigny.: "Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Bernard De Voto.: "Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth love Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.: "Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience person Other quotes by Edith Newbold Jones Wharton.: "Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power reason past future change mind look Other quotes by Hugh White.: "When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first society Other quotes by George Whitehead.: "It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost bad history run education ideas Other quotes by Alfred Whitney.: "Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world child look Other quotes by Ron Wild.: "Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Oprah Winfrey.: "Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Aristophanes.: "A man may learn wisdom even from a foe."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness Other quotes by Pearl Buck.: "There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old Other quotes by Bias.: "Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions."
Quote link. Other quotes by Cato the Elder.: "Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity."
Quote link. Other quotes by Hugo De Groot.: "Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength Other quotes by Robbie Gass.: "Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first Other quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.: "One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."
Quote link. Other quotes by Titus Maccius Plautus.: "Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by N. Sri Ram.: "There is no wisdom without love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old grow Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man beauty Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books man book courage alone Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing Other quotes by Socrates.: "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die live life making Other quotes by Socrates.: "Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find Other quotes by Socrates.: "I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
Quote link. Other quotes by Sophocles.: "A short saying oft contains much wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Sophocles.: "Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness old god men wise words Other quotes by Sophocles.: "There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience first Other quotes by Confucius.: "By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness change Other quotes by Confucius.: "They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by John Henry Cardinal Newman.: "A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lies Other quotes by Confucius.: "To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature need Other quotes by John Milton.: "Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: courage change Other quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr.: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Quote link. Other quotes about: courage change Other quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr.: "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
Quote link. Other quotes by M Scott Peck.: "Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: government lies Other quotes by Louis D. Brandeis.: "In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Igor Stravinsky.: "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience never Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience Other quotes by Joseph Roux.: "Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little man mankind Other quotes by W. R. Inge.: "It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope history time man mankind Other quotes by Woody Allen.: "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
Quote link. Other quotes by Charles Caleb Colton.: "Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day time man Other quotes by Abraham Lincoln.: "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day."
Quote link. Other quotes by John Stuart Mill.: "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."
Quote link. Other quotes by Charles Dickens.: "There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope nothing time good evil light belief heaven Other quotes by Charles Dickens.: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
Quote link. Other quotes by Charles Dickens.: "A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope nothing time light belief heaven Other quotes by Charles Dickens.: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god world man nature good wise Other quotes by Pierre Charron.: "The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope lost power people pain love Other quotes by Dante Alighieri.: "Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy children child Other quotes by Kahlil Gibran.: "Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing sun Other quotes by Kahlil Gibran.: "Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science men children child Other quotes by Sir Arthur Eddington.: "Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience wise Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.: "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience wise Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.: "The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason time seed fact lies Other quotes by Hal Borland.: "The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance never Other quotes by William Blake.: "Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right day live nothing man life light mind Other quotes by Buddha.: "On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man nature need look Other quotes by Lao Tzu.: "Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength power Other quotes by Lao Tzu.: "Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."
Quote link. Other quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith.: "One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech Other quotes by Plutarch.: "Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin.: "The doors of wisdom are never shut."
Quote link. Other quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes.: "It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship happy friend friends Other quotes by Epicurus.: "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men wise lies Other quotes by Joseph Addison.: "Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing understand music Other quotes by Walter Lippmann.: "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience live Other quotes by Charlie Parker.: "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle"
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance time man wise mind Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age."
Quote link. Other quotes about: courage Other quotes by Baltasar Gracian.: "Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth world peace need Other quotes by Dave Barry.: "Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art life Other quotes by Lin Yutang.: "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Jonathan Swift.: "Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance believe Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.: "I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think little man sleep teach Other quotes by Simone Weil.: "Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this."
Quote link. Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes by Aldous Huxley.: "Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time good pain fear Other quotes by John Updike.: "There are times when fear is good It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain."
Quote link. Other quotes about: father children education child Other quotes by John Updike.: "The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: physical Other quotes by Henry Miller.: "Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness alone Other quotes by Sigmund Freud.: "Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."
Quote link. Other quotes by Proverbs 47-8.: "Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time beauty rule Other quotes by William Butler Yeats.: "You shall go with me, newly-married bride,And gaze upon a merrier multitude.White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the Western Host,Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,But joy is wisdom, time an endless song."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience wise Other quotes by William Feather.: "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day man Other quotes by Elbert Hubbard.: "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit."
Quote link. Other quotes by Karl Kraus.: "Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life teach Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.: "Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position."
Quote link. Other quotes about: fear Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.: "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.: "Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness old Other quotes by Sydney Harris.: "People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first book Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: success mind Other quotes by Edmund Burke.: "The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right human men rest Other quotes by Edmund Burke.: "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human men look Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise Other quotes by Mahatma Gandhi.: "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
Quote link. Other quotes by Horace.: "Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death die happy god friend man father worse fear friends rich hard Other quotes by Horace.: "It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland."
Quote link. Other quotes by Horace.: "To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes by Horace.: "Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rest Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost Other quotes by T. S. Eliot.: "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information"
Quote link. Other quotes about: art Other quotes by Seneca.: "The arts are the servant wisdom its master."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Margaret Fuller.: "It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."
Quote link. Other quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson.: "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right Other quotes by Chinese Proverb.: "The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man mankind wish Other quotes by William Hazlitt.: "To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power success Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men man beauty Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men."
Quote link. Other quotes by Jean Cocteau.: "The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science experience man beauty good dead Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: success mind Other quotes by Kurt Herbert Alder.: "The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success."
Quote link. Other quotes about: courage forget Other quotes by Charles Hamilton Aide.: "I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget."
Quote link. Other quotes about: success Other quotes by Joey Adams.: "Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day time man Other quotes by William Adams.: "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time good pain fear Other quotes by Aeschylus.: "There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance man wise change mind Other quotes by Akhenaton.: "True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Aristophenes.: "A man may learn wisdom even from a foe."
Quote link. Other quotes by Saint Augustine.: "Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: courage change Other quotes by Saint Francis of Assisi.: "Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power success Other quotes by George Baker.: "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power Other quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet.: "We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother hope old truth little beauty mother hate love future run heaven Other quotes by Alan Marshall Beck.: "Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history Other quotes by Jean Bodin.: "The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes by H Hahn Blavatsky.: "Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power reason past future change mind look Other quotes by Phyllis Bottome.: "When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Seymour Britchky.: "Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: technology world Other quotes by General Omar Nelson Bradley.: "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day rain Other quotes by Heywood.: "I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day."
Quote link. Other quotes by Merry Browne.: "Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right believe rest Other quotes by John Buchan.: "I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god truth live never man life Other quotes by William Frank Buckley, Jr..: "I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life living Other quotes by Sandra Carey.: "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life."
Quote link. Other quotes by Simondes of Ceos.: "There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech small Other quotes by Chuang-tzu.: "Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Churton Collins.: "To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day people past future Other quotes by Vernon Cooper.: "These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason Other quotes by James Dent.: "Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty Other quotes by Tryon Edwards.: "Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety."
Quote link. Other quotes about: fact lies Other quotes by Martin H. Fischer.: "Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship work friend beauty peace need love friends Other quotes by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.: "I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise Other quotes by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.: "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and wisest might err."
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Quote link. Other quotes by Bhagavad Gita.: "As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes."
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Quote link. Other quotes by Sir John Harington.: "Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more."
Quote link. Other quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne.: "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed."
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Quote link. Other quotes by Christine Lane.: "It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen."
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Quote link. Other quotes by Greek Proverb.: "Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom."
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Quote link. Other quotes by Menander.: "It is not white hair that engenders wisdom."
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