Quotes about wisdom
wisdom smart teaching
To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake
wisdom time artist
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. William Blake
wisdom knowledge thought-provoking
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. William Blake
wisdom witty humorous
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Wernher von Braun
wisdom confused long
I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. Wallis Simpson
wisdom knowing understanding
Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept. Wallace Stegner
wisdom real school
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. Samuel Smiles
wisdom nature book
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. Samuel Smiles
wisdom appreciate firsts
The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have. Samuel Richardson
wisdom men should-have
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life. Samuel Butler
wisdom fall taken
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace. William Cowper
wisdom weed truth
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. William Cowper
wisdom mind relaxation
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. William Cowper
wisdom understanding
Trusting yourself is trusting the wisdom that created you. Wayne Dyer
wisdom reality definitions
Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom Wayne Dyer
wisdom men community
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair
wisdom lag too-much
Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise. William Greider
wisdom men want
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control. William Graham Sumner
wisdom intellect
You have a dizzying intellect. William Goldman
wisdom new-day challenges
The master secret of happiness is to meet the challenge of each new day with the serene faith that: "All things work together for good to them that love God." Wilferd Peterson
wisdom art prayer
The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve. Wilferd Peterson
wisdom thinking clue
The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says. Stephen Breyer
wisdom jobs yes-you-can
If someone does offer you a job, say 'yes.' You can always quit later. Then at least you'll be one of the unemployed as opposed to one of the never-employed. Nothing looks worse on a resume than nothing. Stephen Colbert
wisdom perfect matter
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever. Thomas Hobbes
wisdom people dignity
Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger. Thomas Friedman
wisdom time power
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. Thomas J. Watson
wisdom
I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did. Thomas Keneally
wisdom children memories
I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers. Thomas Keneally
wisdom culture study
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. Raymond Queneau
wisdom art kings
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. Victor Hugo
wisdom men effort
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... Victor Hugo
wisdom hands monsters
We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts. Victor Hugo
wisdom verbs
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. Victor Hugo