Wisdom Quotes - Page 5

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Never cut what you can untie.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

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

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

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

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.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

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

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.