22,502 Quotes About Wisdom

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.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.