Wisdom Quotes - page 4

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. (Susan Orlean)
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. View quote
John Updike
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. View quote
Frank Zappa
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. View quote
Franz Grillparzer
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. View quote
Leonard Nimoy
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. View quote
Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. View quote
Edmund Burke
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. View quote
Joseph Addison
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. View quote
Estelle Getty
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish. View quote
Anne Bradstreet
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. View quote
Woody Allen
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. View quote
Margaret Fuller
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. View quote
Edith Wharton
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. (E. E. Cummings)
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. View quote
Harry Dean Stanton
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. View quote
James Huneker
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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