Quotes about Wisdom
The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.
— Lauren Kate
There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.
— Oprah Winfrey
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.
— Elbert Hubbard
You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.
— Winston Churchill
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
— William Saroyan
To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
— Victor Hugo
I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.
— Thomas Jefferson
What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends.
— AW Tozer
There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.
— John Calvin
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
— Aristotle