Wisdom Quotes

You never turn away family, no matter how f***ed up they are.

~ Ronald Velesovsky

...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

~ Mark Batterson

Processed data is information.Processed information is knowledgeProcessed knowledge is Wisdom.

~ Ankala V Subbarao

Stop blaming and start being!

~ Bryant Mcgill

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

~ Charles Eisenstein

Over done forgotten gone now my troubles will move on.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

... because one kingdom goes to war with another, it does not mean all citizens of that kingdom agree with it. It is not always they have a choice.

~ Patrick Hall

Time vanquishes even the strongest of strongholds.

~ Patrick Hall

Brains will always conquer brawn, in the end. The soldiers can flex their muscles all they want, but the well-thought-out tactics of the generals are what win the war.

~ Patrick Hall

The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce.

~ Mark W. Boyer

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

~ John Calvin

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

~ Nate Silver

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within

~ Heraclitus

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

~ Anthony De Mello

It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: 'All the time you're looking left and right at other people, you're neglecting what's in front of you.If you focus on looking straight ahead, you can take the odd glance at the future.' He's got a way of saying things sometimes that just puts everything into perspective.

~ James Corden

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

~ Bill Cosby

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

~ Milan Kundera

Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.

~ Ravi Zacharias

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

~ L. Ron Hubbard

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.

~ Angela Ahrendts

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

~ Baruch Spinoza

Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.

~ Dennis Prager

We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.

~ Marcia Fudge

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

~ Jay Weatherill

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

~ Beau Bridges

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

~ Jim Carrey

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

~ Yehuda Berg

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

~ Tom Robbins

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

~ Randy Forbes

Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.

~ Neil Gorsuch

My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor.

~ Julia Glass

In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.

~ Dean Ornish

The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

~ Vladimir Putin

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

~ Robert E. Lee

When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.

~ John C. Calhoun

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

~ Thomas Paine

Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.

~ Marilyn Ferguson

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

~ Samuel Smiles