Famous Quotes About wisdom

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.