What Is Wisdom Quotes

The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a healthy attitude - and that comes from being a Star Wars fan.

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

Wisdom can be found and held onto...but wisdom can never be purchased. It is not for sale.

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

Psychic phenomena does not mean wisdom; it only means mental understanding of the relationship of the outer world to the inner world.

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.

What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.

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

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

The grand instructor, time.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.

Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.

Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.

Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.

I want faith; but I am faithless

It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.

Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

A man's wisdom is measured by his hope.

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.