Famous Quotes About wisdom

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

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

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.