Wisdom Quotes (257)
Quotes and citations about wisdom
Great wisdom is generous.. view
By: Zhuangzi
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials... view
By: Lin Yutang
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought... view
By: Edward Young
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source... view
By: Brigham Young
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation... view
By: William Butler Yeats
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise... view
By: William Butler Yeats
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar... view
By: William Wordsworth
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others... view
By: John Woolman
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story... view
By: Bob Woodward
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.".. view
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself... view
By: Oprah Winfrey
Turn your wounds into wisdom... view
By: Oprah Winfrey
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself... view
By: Tom Wilson
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely... view
By: E. O. Wilson
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm... view
By: Rowan D. Williams
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it... view
By: Esther Williams
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind... view
By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed... view
By: William Whitehead
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame.. view
By: Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows... view
By: Alfred North Whitehead
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so... view
By: Timothy White
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth... view
By: Barry White
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom... view
By: John Webster
Wisdom begins at the end... view
By: Daniel Webster
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich... view
By: Evelyn Waugh
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use... view
By: Thomas J. Watson
A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths... view
By: Greg Walden
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom... view
By: Bernard De Voto
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 an education... view
By: John Updike
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency... view
By: John Updike
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment... view
By: Morihei Ueshiba
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them... view
By: Mo Udall
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment... view
By: Lao Tzu
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there.. view
By: Tina 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... view
By: Dale Turner
Memory is not wisdom.. view
By: Martin Farquhar Tupper
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution... view
By: Anthony Trollope
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness... view
By: Thomas Traherne
I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom... view
By: Nina Totenberg
True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people... view
By: Kiana Tom