Wisdom Quotes

“I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.”

— John Barrymore

“No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.”

— Erica Jong

“Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.”

— Cyril Connolly

“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.”

— Christopher Reeve

“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”

— Aristotle

“Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.”

— Marc Andreessen

“Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.”

— Bob Woodward

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.”

— Dan Rather

“You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.”

— Benjamin Carson

“Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.”

— Herbert Hoover

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.”

— Edward Young

“If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.”

— Mason Cooley