Wisdom Quotes

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people aro...

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of w...

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along an...

A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet an...

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we...

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference betwe...

A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is...

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't ...

Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom...

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

The little Otak was hiding in the rafters of the house, as it did when strangers entered. There it s...

As a boy, Ogion like all boys had thought it would be a very pleasant game to take by art-magic what...

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, b...

He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are inn...

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that wi...

It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need ...

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in w...

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in w...

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth...

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: tha...

With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes ...

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an a...

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Chr...

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly ...

The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by...

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure...

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

I have been studying for forty years, which is to say forty wasted years; I teach others yet am igno...

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. ...

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to ...

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and...

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquesti...

re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults y...

Here is the test of wisdom, Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from on...

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of ot...

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would h...

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he de...

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in ...

Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, li...

...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselv...

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't d...

I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loud...

From my college courses and my reading I knew the various names that came at the end of a line of qu...

The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if ...

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosoph...

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is no...

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we...

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the s...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do ...

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thin...

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses...

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a differen...

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,...

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are p...

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese peo...

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afrai...

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be empe...