Wisdom Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Peter Jennings

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Brigham Young

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Diogenes

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

William Hazlitt

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Jeremy Collier

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Henry Ellis

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Friedrich Schiller

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

William Shakespeare

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Ed Miliband

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Orison Swett Marden

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Karl Shapiro

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Natalie Clifford Barney

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Andrew Carnegie

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

Alexander Smith

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Mary Astell

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Publilius Syrus

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Immanuel Kant

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

William Ralph Inge

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Felix Frankfurter

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Baltasar Gracian

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Lord Acton

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Felix Frankfurter

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Malcolm Forbes

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.