Wisdom Quotes - page 20

Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation. (Alberto Manguel)
Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom. View quote
Anton Chekhov
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom. View quote
Novalis
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. View quote
Ansel Adams
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. View quote
Horace
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. It has engaged the industry and wisdom of ancient and modern geometers to such an extent that it would be superfluous to discuss the problem at length. ... Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Give any man the power of a god, and you better hope he's got the wisdom and morals of a god to match. There's nothing feeble about my moral line. I value life. That is why I fight to protect it. I mourn every man I lose and every sacrifice I make. One life or a billion, they're all lives. (Dan Abnett)
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
Wit and wisdom are born with a man. View quote
John Selden
Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. View quote
Barack Obama
There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure. View quote
E. F. Schumacher
It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal. View quote
Leo Strauss
By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom. View quote
Leo Strauss
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. View quote
Otto Weininger
When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom. (Frank Herbert)
What is strength without a double share of wisdom? View quote
John Milton
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches. View quote
Ben Carson