Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
— William Cowper
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
— William Butler Yeats
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
— Will Rogers
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
— Will Durant
Courage is always the surest wisdom.
— Wilfred Grenfell
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
— Walter Scott
Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
— Walter Cronkite
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
— Walt Disney
The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.
— W. S. Merwin
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
— Vusi Mahlasela
A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.
— Virat Kohli
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Society is notoriously stupid in its failure to harness the wisdom of older women in everything from television to politics, family life to boardrooms, and here is one reminiscing with honesty and realism about women's particular challenge: to create our professional and financial structures in the same period as our peak fertility.
— Victoria Coren Mitchell
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
— Vera Wang
What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.
— Tyler Perry
I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.
— Troy Polamalu
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
— William Congreve
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
— William Arthur Ward
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there's a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don't have.
— Wayne Shorter
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
— Walter Pater
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
— Walter Benjamin
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
— Wallace Stegner
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
— W. Clement Stone
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.
— Vladimir Putin
Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
— Vincent Bugliosi
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
— Vikas Swarup
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
— Victor Hugo
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
— Venerable Bede
I'm grateful for my lines of wisdom. Of course, there are days when I think: 'Oh my gawd, I look a bit tired.' But I can pull it together if I have to.
— Twiggy
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
— Trent Reznor
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
— Willem Dafoe
If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
— will.i.am
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
— Wilfrid Sheed
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
— Walter Lippmann
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
— Wade Davis
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
— Vivek Wadhwa
Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.
— Victoria Osteen
Habit is the nursery of errors.
An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.
— Urjit Patel
Artemisinin... is a true gift from old Chinese medicine. But this is not the only instance in which the wisdom of Chinese medicine has borne fruit.
— Tu Youyou
