Wisdom Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Anna Jameson

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

William Samuel Johnson

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

Roone Arledge

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Francis Quarles

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Dee Hock

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Alphonse de Lamartine

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Roger Ascham

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

George Santayana

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Herb Caen

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

Greg Walden

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

Robert Bridges

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Alfred North Whitehead

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

John George Nicolay

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Gustave Courbet

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Norman Douglas

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Francis Quarles

The wisest of the wise may err.

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

Willard Libby

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Robert South

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Camille Paglia

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Anthony Trollope

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Norman Douglas

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.

Zhuangzi

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Pindar

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Chen Shui-bian

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Patrick

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Leo Strauss

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Wislawa Szymborska

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

Philip Massinger

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

Arthur Eddington

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Richard Lamm

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Thomas Reid

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Hal Borland