Wisdom Quotes - page 10

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom. (Leo Tolstoy)
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive In a human body at this moment, Endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, And the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. View quote
Alex Grey
Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk. View quote
Richard Koch
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer nonsense. View quote
Aldous Huxley
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. View quote
Akhenaten
He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. View quote
Plato
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. View quote
Plato
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. View quote
Aristotle
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. (Aristotle)
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. View quote
Albert Einstein
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. View quote
Josh Billings
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes. View quote
Rick Riordan
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. (Thomas Reid)
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. View quote
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it. View quote
Bruce H. Lipton
Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors. View quote
Bernie Siegel
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn