Quotes for Wisdom

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Liz Carpenter

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Quintus Ennius

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

Ezra Stiles

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Orison Swett Marden

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Thomas Reid

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Ralph Cudworth

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

Joanna Southcott

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

Josh Brolin

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Mason Cooley

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Edward Young

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Kenny Rogers

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Aeschylus

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

I was lucky in that I played in a Liverpool team alongside the likes of Raheem Sterling, Jon Flanagan, Andre Wisdom and Suso and you knew that these players were special.

Conor Coady

Knowledge, wisdom is the deciding factor in everything you do in life.

Jared Cannonier

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

John Updike

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

Zbigniew Brzezinski