“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”
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.
“In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.”
“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”
“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.”
“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
“Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.”
“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”
“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
“If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.”
“Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.”
“Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.”
“Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.”
“You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.”
“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”
“The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.”
“Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.”
“Wisdom begins at the end.”