Quotes About Wisdom

No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.

Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

Just watching Robert De Niro was all the words of wisdom I really needed.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.