Famous Quotes: Wisdom

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.
Use this quote  

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Use this quote  

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
Use this quote  

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Use this quote  

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

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Use this quote  

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
Use this quote  

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Use this quote  

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Use this quote  

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
Use this quote  

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Use this quote  

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
Use this quote  

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
Use this quote  

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
Use this quote  

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
Use this quote  

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
Use this quote  

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
Use this quote  

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Use this quote  

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
Use this quote  

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Use this quote