Quotes on Wisdom
Our country has not ceased to glory in its strength, but it has come to a realization that it must have something more than numbers and wealth, something more than a fleet and an army, to satisfy the longing of the soul. It knows that to power must be added wisdom, and to greatness must be added morality.
Calvin Coolidge
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form correct judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
Edmund Burke
Often a dash of judgment is better than a flash of genius.
Howard Newton
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.
Confucius
If you isolate your problem from others, your chances of solving it are thin. Problems require wisdom, and wisdom requires perspective. Other people provide that perspective.
Bill Russell
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
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