Wisdom Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Gerald Brenan

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

Emanuel Swedenborg

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Epicurus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

Ezra Stiles

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Adam Clarke

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

William Penn

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Jimmy Carter

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Mikhail Gorbachev

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

Sonny Perdue

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Joseph Roux

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Edward Young

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Friedrich Schiller

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

John Keats

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

William O. Douglas

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Mary Wilson Little

He was a wise man who invented beer.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

Sam Mendes

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Sun Tzu

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

Minna Antrim

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Hermann Hesse

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Roger Ascham

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Omar N. Bradley

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Dean Inge

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Henry David Thoreau