Wisdom Quotes
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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The person I like most is the one who points out my defects
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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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.
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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.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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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.
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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'.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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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.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
