Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Wisdom.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
William Dean Howells
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Torquato Tasso
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
Johann Georg Hamann
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Buddha
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
Anna Quindlen
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
Constantin Stanislavski
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
Omar Sharif
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
Maria Bartiromo
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
William Shakespeare
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
K. D. Lang
When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward
Paulo Coelho
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
Samuel Butler
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
Aristotle
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
Jodi Picoult