Quotes for Wisdom

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

John Cheever

You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom.

Hubert de Givenchy

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Zhuangzi

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Saadi

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Lin Yutang

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Thomas Dekker

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Daniel Dae Kim

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

Vusi Mahlasela

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom.

Robert Shapiro

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

Esther Williams

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Chen Shui-bian

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

Katherine Heigl

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

John Webster

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

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

Thomas Reid

I went out of my way to play games I didn't like or find interesting. Those ended up being a lot more informative for me. At home, I have literally thousands of games, and I think of them as pearls of wisdom from my predecessors.

Masahiro Sakurai

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

Jimmy Carr

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

William Cowper