Quotes About Wisdom

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

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

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.