Wisdom Quotes - page 16

Wisdom comes with winters. (Oscar Wilde)
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. View quote
Alfred de Vigny
A fence to wisdom is silence. View quote
Akiba ben Joseph
No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or more intimate associates, which may be inferred both from his birth, and his versatile wisdom. View quote
Iamblichus
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator. View quote
William Buckland
What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do? View quote
Iain Banks
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story. View quote
Bob Woodward
Wisdom is synergy of mind and heart. View quote
Stephen Covey
Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man. View quote
Jon Anderson
Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion, Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. View quote
William Cowper
The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom. (James Clavell)
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. View quote
William Law
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. View quote
Joseph Roux
The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics. View quote
Walter Russell
The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom. View quote
Abraham Isaac Kook
Chance and change are busy ever; Man decays, and ages move; But His mercy waneth never; God is wisdom, God is love. View quote
John Bowring
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth. View quote
John Buchan
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom. (Lin Yutang)
After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing...The salient need of this country-to produce more and much more efficiently-hardly figured on the agenda. View quote
Jo Grimond
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. View quote
Sacha Guitry
I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom. View quote
Bertrand Russell