Wisdom Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 4

Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

A wise man keeps secrets in his heart; a foolish man tells tales.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

If you don''t know where you''re going, you''ll end up somewhere else.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won''t get much sleep.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

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.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Wisdom is what''s left after we''ve run out of personal opinions.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.