Wisdom Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Newman

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Edward Young

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Lord Chesterfield

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Heinrich Heine

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Andrew Carnegie

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

Brigham Young

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Friedrich Schiller

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

William Arthur Ward

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Nick Clooney

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Tom Wilson

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Baltasar Gracian

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Clifford Stoll

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

Lactantius

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

Frederick Pollock

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Saul Bellow

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Herodotus

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Arthur Helps

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Johannes Tauler

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Augustus Hare

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Franz Schubert

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

Sara Teasdale

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Niccolo Machiavelli

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James A. Garfield

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Chanakya

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Edward Abbey

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Rene Descartes

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Gabriel Marcel

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

John Webster

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.