Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight...

Wade Davis
Wisdom quotes by Walt Disney, UberQuotes

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Walt Disney

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.

Willem Dafoe

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

William O. Douglas

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its...

Willie Geist

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

William Dean Howells

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

William Eardley IV

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

William Ralph Inge

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

William Samuel Johnson

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

will.i.am

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

Wilson Mizner

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

William Penn

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

Will Rogers

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wilfrid Sheed

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Xenophon

Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

Yoko Ono