Wisdom Quotes - Page 24

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

You can observe a lot by watching.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

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

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

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

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

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

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.