Wisdom Quotes - page 6

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. (Thomas Jefferson)
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. View quote
Andrew Jackson
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. View quote
Samuel Smiles
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. View quote
Norman Douglas
Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. View quote
John Denham
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. View quote
Maimonides
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. View quote
Paulo Coelho
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. (James Allen)
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades. View quote
Xi Jinping
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm looking for a market for wisdom. View quote
Leó Szilárd
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. View quote
Cicero
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. View quote
Cicero
Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom. View quote
Hugo Grotius
Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
The wisdom of our ancestors. View quote
Edmund Burke
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. (Christopher Reeve)
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. View quote
Christopher Reeve
Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. View quote
Samuel Johnson