Wisdom Quotes
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.
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When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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The future of any country which is dependent upon the will and wisdom of its citizens is damaged, and irreparably damaged, whenever any of its children is not educated to the full extent of his talent, from grade school through graduate school.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
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You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.
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Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.
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There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.
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Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
