Quotes About Wisdom

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

My inner guidance is there for me to call on anytime I need or want extra clarity, wisdom, knowledge, support, creative inspiration, love, or companionship.

Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you're entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people's opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

Often the wisdom of the body Clarifies the despair of the spirit.

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Luck never made a man wise.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.