Quotes About Wisdom

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

I have no wisdom to share on dating.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!