Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

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, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

The proper artistic response to digital technology is to embrace it as a new window on everything that's eternally human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy.

A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.

All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

Without fools there would be no wisdom.

Kindness is wisdom.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Wisdom comes with winters.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Better to get wisdom than gold.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

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

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Wisdom is scar tissue in disguise.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

You shall go with me, newly-married bride,And gaze upon a merrier multitude.White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the Western Host,Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.