Quotes About Wisdom

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.

I look back on being 17 and think, 'Oh my God, how did I not die?'

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker.

I suddenly realize why David Attenborough is the giant he is. It is not just his geographic curiosity, not just his anthropological understanding, not just his gift for narration that simultaneously calms the soul and inspires the mind. It is that behind it all there is such a deep thinker.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

The Founding Fathers were truly some of the most gifted thinkers in history. They understood that power could be used to corrupt.

It interests me when I hear people quoting great thinkers, because it's like, OK, but does that make you any brighter?

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.