Wisdom Quotes

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

Best, Alone, True

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
Elizabeth George

Art, Writing, America

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Charles Simmons

Age, Next, Folly

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine

Pet, Cats, Superior

Courage is always the surest wisdom.
Wilfred Grenfell

Courage, Surest

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Jean Bodin

History, Political, Study

Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges.
Erin Gray

Life, Strength, Learning

India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.
Pratibha Patil

Good, Strong, Thinking

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
Lianne La Havas

Love, Music, Women

The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
Gordon Gee

Beauty, Nothing, Soul

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
Bennie Thompson

Successful, Strong, Justice

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
Shmuel Y. Agnon

God, After, Return

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

Knowing, Times, Born

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
Patricia Richardson

Mom, Mother, Husband

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
Xi Jinping

Good, Home, History

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

Political, May, Party

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Richard Cecil

Worst, Leaves, Folly

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
Charles Inglis

Happiness, Government, Human

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.
John Jewel

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
George Combe

Her, Nation, Few

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Sidney Hook

Nature, Knowledge, Human

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.
David Puttnam

Education, Best, Ignore

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

Idiots, Memory, Repeat

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
Peter Hammill

Rather, Song, Individual

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
George Crabbe

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