Wisdom Quotes
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At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that classroom teachers often know their students better than anybody else in the system and that their front-line experience gives them a special kind of wisdom.
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There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.
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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
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Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
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Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
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It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.
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People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
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Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.
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Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
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Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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Wisdom. No match for the troublemaker Curiosity.
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I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
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Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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For people of different faiths to coexist, it's going to take maturity, wisdom, and patience. All of which come, eventually, with tolerance. And it's a process of time.
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The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
