712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.”— Josh Billings

“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”— Josh Billings

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”— Francis Bacon

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”— Plutarch

“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”— Thomas J. Watson

“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”— Plato

“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”— John F. Kennedy

“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”— Michel de Montaigne

“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.”— Henry David Thoreau

“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.”— George Bernard Shaw

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”— Khalil Gibran

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.”— William Blake

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”— Henry David Thoreau

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”— Khalil Gibran

“I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.”— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.”— Pietro Aretino

“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”— Reinhold Niebuhr

“A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.”— Greg Walden

“The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.”— William Arthur Ward

“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

“We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.”— Michelle Bachelet

“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”— Thomas Huxley