Wisdom Quotes

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

Eliot Spitzer

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

Ezra Stiles

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Khalil Gibran
Wisdom quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Music quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven, UberQuotes

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tas...

Michael Azerrad

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Paton

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Ayn Rand

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Bernard DeVoto

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable l...

Buddha

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Francis Bacon

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Havelock Ellis

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.

Mary Astell

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Samuel Smiles

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

Xenophanes

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Erma Bombeck

I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.

Margaret Cho

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

Patricia Richardson

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Ray Lewis

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Ariel Gore