Top 1000 Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.
There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.
The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.