Wisdom Quotes

"If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements."

"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation."

"Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose."

"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care."

"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything."

"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."

"In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer."

"Never find fault with the absent."

"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."

"When you doubt, abstain."

"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

"Be as you wish to seem."

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."

"Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years."

"An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with."

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

"Please all, and you will please none."

"One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go."

"All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted."

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment."

"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."

"You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements."

"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

"We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters."

"To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."

"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."

"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."

"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."

"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart."

"Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come."

"In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything."

"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."

"The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom."

"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth."

"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

"The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."

"Start wide, expand further, and never look back."

"When in doubt, don't."

"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance."

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."

"Trouble shared is trouble halved."

"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."

"Cleverness is not wisdom."

"The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly."

"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."