Category: Quotes About Wisdom

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. -James Buchanan

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. -Ezra Stiles

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

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom. -Herbie Hancock

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. -Elizabeth Hardwick

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. -Carly Fiorina

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

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. -Francis Quarles

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance. -George Bernard Shaw

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. -Theodore Isaac Rubin

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true. -Lactantius

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. -Mary Kay Ash

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. -John Wooden

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. -Denis Waitley

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. -William Whitehead

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. -Menander

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. -Mikhail Gorbachev

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom. -Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. -Theodore Dreiser

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. -M. Scott Peck

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. -Christopher Reeve