Quotes for Wisdom

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

George Eliot

Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.

Marilyn Ferguson

America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white racism has lost its legitimacy in the world and become an almost universal disgrace.

Shelby Steele

I was offered the opportunity at the Mariners to pass on my experiences and wisdom in order to develop the football club back into the football club that it once was.

Mike Phelan

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Jim Carrey

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Epicurus

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Christopher Reeve

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Alfred North Whitehead

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Hal Borland

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

Yogi Berra

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Holly Near