What Is Wisdom Quotes

Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

It's the kind of sage wisdom coming from a guy who was 25 at the time, but already had 20 years of experience. Kurt Russell is a wonderful actor and a great guy.

Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.