Quotes for Wisdom

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

James Madison

People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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

Samuel Johnson

New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.

John C. Bogle

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

John Burroughs

Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.

John McCain

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

Ruby Bridges

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Lord Byron

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Henry David Thoreau

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

H. L. Mencken

A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.

John Rampton

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

Carly Fiorina

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

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Norman Douglas

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

William Hazlitt