Quotes About Wisdom

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.

Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

You ever want to know what consensus and groupthink and conventional wisdom in Washington is, just find what David "Rodham" Gergen is saying and you'll find out what 99% of 'em are thinking.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've never viewed them in any way as being separable.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Wisdom isn't about knowing; it's an understanding that meaning is inexhaustible.

Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki