W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.”
“Wisdom is essentially the same thing as common sense, the slight difference is that common sense provides the ability to react appropriately, while wisdom is frequently more proactive and additionally encourages the shaping of the environment.”
Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
“Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.”
“Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment”
Source: We Never Talk about My Brother
“Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly; without first having to lose one’s life.”
Source: The Confessions of a Misfit
“Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.”
“Wisdom is for the meek,' he returns. 'And it seldom helps them as much as they believe it will. After all, as wise as you are, you still married Locke. Of course, perhaps you are wiser than even that- perhaps you're so wise you made yourself a widow, too.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Wisdom is found only in truth.”
“Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.”
“Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.”
Source: Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford
“Wisdom is hereditary. You get it from your children.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Wisdom is honey for the soul!”
“Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.”
“Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.”
“Wisdom is indispensable in the fulfillment of purpose".”
“Wisdom is justified by all her children.
Luke 7:35”
Source: Holy Bible: New International Version
“Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.”
“Wisdom is knowing how little we know.”
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”
“Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.”
“Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.”
“Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do and doing it at the right time to get the desired result. It is also the correct application of knowledge.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.”
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”
Source: The Trend of the American University
“Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.”
“Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.”
“Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.”
“Wisdom is knowing when you don't know”
“Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.”
“Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise”
“Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.”
Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate
“Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Wisdom is learned through mistakes. If you're never wrong, you'll never be wise. - The Malwatch”
“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”
“Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.”
“wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.”
“Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.”
Source: Arrow of God
“Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.”
Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.”
“Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a bag, but their supply of sugar is not the amount in the bag. When you come to a grocer, he has sugar in abundance. But he sees how much money you have brought and gives accordingly. Your currency on this Path is resolution and faith, and you are taught according to your resolution and faith. When you come seeking sugar, they examine your bag to see what its capacity is; then they measure out accordingly.”
“Wisdom is locked inside of an insane mind.”
“Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them. You look at family life and child rearing as God looks at them. You interpret current events as God would interpret them. You see the truth even though all around you are deception and lies.”
Source: Great Days with the Great Lives: Daily Insight from Great Lives of the Bible
“Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.”
“Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.”
“Wisdom is merely the counter power used against on your unique talents to prevent them turning into your deadly curses.”
“Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.”
“Wisdom is more valuable than knowledge.
Truth is more valuable than opinion.
Discernment is more valuable than intelligence.
Intuition is more valuable than vision.
Observation is more valuable than hearing.
Experience is more valuable than education.
Compassion is more valuable than titles.
Character is more valuable than reputation.
Integrity is more valuable than intellect.
Honor is more valuable than admiration.
Patience is more valuable than passion.
Joy is more valuable than happiness.
Peace is more valuable than riches.
Faith is more valuable than religion.
Meekness is more valuable than might.
Confidence is more valuable than strength.
Love is more valuable than desire.
Reality is more valuable than fantasy.
Fate is more valuable than chance.
Eternity is more valuable than time.”
“Wisdom is my religion.
Books are my priest.
Libraries are my temple.
Enlightenment is my heaven.
Love is my religion.
Compassion is my priest.
The world is my temple.
The universe is my heaven.
Truth is my religion.
Conscience is my priest.
Conviction is my temple.
Virtue is my heaven.
Freedom is my religion.
Tolerance is my priest.
Harmony is my temple.
Peace is my heaven.
Nature is my religion.
Light is my priest.
Time is my temple.
Eternity is my heaven.”
“Wisdom is necessary in life; strive for it with all your heart. It will help you become diligent with your time.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays