Wisdom Quotes

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

He read his mind. He’s a strange sort of man, isn’t he? It’s not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Remembering is painful, it’s difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one’s judgment, till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man’s judgment.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.