Wisdom Quotes

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

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.

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Kindness is wisdom.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.