Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Plodding wins the race.
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you’re not going to want to keep it to yourself. You’re going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well.
Spending two years on my uncle’s ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.
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.’
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Artemisinin… is a true gift from old Chinese medicine. But this is not the only instance in which the wisdom of Chinese medicine has borne fruit.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, ‘Let’s make a wish on a star,’ there’s one thing I wish for: wisdom.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
I’m always feeling like I’m lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.
Bankruptcy, divorce, these are feathers in my cap, I suppose. I have a wisdom which has been born from these things.
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
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.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it’s about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
Slow and steady wins the race.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
Wisdom would dictate that a sense of proportion, empathy and balance should drive how the Workers’ Party approaches Singapore politics.
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
To know one’s self is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbors is genius.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it’s a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Appearances are often deceiving.
Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
