Quotes About Wisdom

I wish for you the wisdom to mind your own business.

I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology.

You don't learn about war by sitting in libraries. Though if people spent more time in libraries, maybe there would be fewer wars.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.

A wise man to accomplish his end may even carry his foe on his shoulder.

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility.

The road to wisdom? Well it's plain And simple to express: Err And err And err again But less And less And less.

Through wisdom a house is built and through understanding it is established.

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.

It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.

My father used to say: Son if you are not bright you've got to be methodical (defusing argument when challenged and proved right)

Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom his wisdom endures. And everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds his wisdom does not endure.

Processed data is information.Processed information is knowledgeProcessed knowledge is Wisdom.

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within

We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.