Quotes for Wisdom

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

James Gleick

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

Rowan Williams

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Eric Alterman

Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.

Dennis Prager

What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a career.

Peter Hitchens

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Anton Chekhov

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

James M. Barrie

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

Richard Dawkins

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

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

Adoniram Judson

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Havelock Ellis

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Tom Peters

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

Kiana Tom

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Bob Woodward

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Robert E. Lee

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.

Frank Abagnale