Quotes About Wisdom

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom.