Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
~ Sacha Guitry
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
~ Arnold Palmer
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
~ Amy Grant
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
~ Karl Kraus
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
~ Roger Ascham
We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.
~ Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Bertrand Russell
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
~ Dee Hock
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
~ Ayn Rand
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
~ Peter Abelard
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
~ Walter Benjamin
Wisdom is found only in truth.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
~ Confucius
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
~ Jenny Shipley
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
~ Abdullah Ii Of Jordan
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
~ Robert Dale Owen
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
~ Antonin Scalia
If elected Speaker, I promise you that we will have the courage to lead the fight for our conservative principles and make our case to the American people. But we will also have the wisdom to listen to our constituents and each other so that we always move forward together.
~ Kevin Mccarthy
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
~ Gary Hamel
For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job. It can be seen in the courage of conviction, in the courage to act with wisdom in the face of fear, and in the courage it takes to admit mistakes and move forward.
~ Robert Mueller
Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.
~ Klaus Schwab
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
~ Dr. Seuss
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
~ Zhuangzi
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
~ Robert Frost
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
~ Colin Powell
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
~ Deepak Chopra
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
~ Rene Russo
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
~ George Lucas
Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
~ Sam Houston
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
~ Peter Conrad
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
~ Hal Borland
