Wisdom Quotes
-
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
-
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
-
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
-
The person I like most is the one who points out my defects
-
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
-
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
-
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
-
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-
Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
-
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
-
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
-
I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
-
With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.
-
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
-
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
-
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
-
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
-
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
-
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
-
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
