“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
Wisdom is not the same as intelligence — it is intelligence filtered through experience, humility, and time. These quotes offer the kind of perspective you usually have to live several decades to acquire, compressed into a sentence or two.
“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”
“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
“Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.”
“One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.”
“You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.”
“The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.”
“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”
“I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.”
“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
“It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.”
“Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.”
“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”
“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.”
“Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.”
“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.”
“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.”