Top 73 Facts Wisdom Quotes
#1. Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.
Rob Sheffield
#2. Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#3. No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts.
Rivera Sun
#4. Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#5. There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.
Mark Van Doren
#6. Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning ... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.
Angela Ahrendts
#8. Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.
Benjamin Disraeli
#9. Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
Herbert Spencer
#10. Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer
#11. Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.
Cornel West
#13. Give me the facts and I will determine my own truths.
Tanjlisa Marie
#14. Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms.
Robin S. Sharma
#15. I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.
Steve Coogan
#16. Facts replaced understanding; and knowledge, split into a thousand isolated fragments, no longer generated wisdom.
Will Durant
#17. The wisdom which is now conventional claims that light creates shadows. But the facts are otherwise. Darkness came first and is infinitely older and more enduring than light. Light borrows a little space; then it dies or moves on, and the dark exists again as if it had never been disturbed.
K.J. Bishop
#18. Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art
Gary Hopkins
#19. Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren't is because you have a conscience.
Heather Chapple
#20. We can choose to accept the fact that a challenge may be quite impossible, or we can choose to challenge the impossible.
Andre Bramble
#21. Life is filled with opportunities. Be courageous and fulfill your destiny. You were created for a purpose and once you realize your potential, you become unstoppable. Let no one get in the way of you pursuing your dreams.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#22. There is no singular truth known to man. All that we know is but a fraction. Truth can only be seen in pieces.
Kay Whitley
#23. Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
Charles Dickens
#24. Science is a lie in day-light, with a lot witnesses. Religion is a truth in darkness, without any need for such witness!
Thiruman Archunan
#25. We always need a motivation, in order for us to meet our full potential at work.
Jayson Engay
#26. Growth of human hair is the absolute blessing for a barber
Munia Khan
#27. Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.
Nilakanta Sri Ram
#28. Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous.
Hilda Van Stockum
#29. Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.
Miguel De Unamuno
#31. Knowledge is the accumulation of facts wisdom is the deduction from these facts of useful laws, a process which can only take place by comparing the facts in one compartment with those in all others, thus giving a vision of the whole.
Vera Stanley Alder
#32. Without books, everything would have been crooked. Without books, the wisdom in books today would have been fairy and folk tales. Without books the whole truth about life would have been imaginations and a guessing game
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.
William Finnegan
#34. People keeps on complaining, but they're not doing anything about the things that they're complaining about.
Jayson Engay
#36. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips
Cynthia Ozick
#37. Mastering facts is knowledge. Mastering knowledge is wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with.
Northrop Frye
#39. We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day.
Gary Hopkins
#41. Remember that we're living in a place that is temporary. No matter what you believe in the end of time I don't care about it. As of now.. live your life, cut those negative thoughts and actions, reach your dreams and goals.
Jayson Engay
#42. The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life-
Everything has a natural healing
process.
Sanober Khan
#43. Most of beliefs that are commonly known as scientific facts are based on various theories, which have never been validated. Many of them will never be.
Question your beliefs. Choose what promotes love and unity.
Raphael Zernoff
#44. There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.
Anthony Burgess
#45. In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume
#46. The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. Wisdom lies not in facts themselves but in our understanding of them
Romina Russell
#48. I don't believe in a golden mean; I don't believe you find policy wisdom between two polar points. I don't dismiss that possibility, but I look at the platform that's so ideologically based, that's so dismissive of facts, of evidence, of science, and it's frankly hard to take seriously.
Thomas E. Mann
#49. Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.
B. J. Palmer
#51. Time for me is now double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last relapse but closer to the next recurrence - and, eventually, death. Perhaps later than I think, but certainly sooner than I desire.
Paul Kalanithi
#52. True education does not fill our minds with facts but teach us how to think to gain wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#53. One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is the
large scale availability of half truth's and manipulated facts
Oche Otorkpa
#54. There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
George Lucas
#55. Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ... man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#56. One truth that has helped me accept some of the most difficult moments and heartbreaking decisions in my life is that I already have all for which I ask. I am blessed! I am delivered from my worries!
Carlos Wallace
#57. The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
#58. I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
Richard M. Nixon
#59. There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#61. Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.
Edwin Louis Cole
#62. First it was "The Silent Generation", then "Generation Boomers", then "Generation X", then "Generation Y" and as last "Generation Z".
Deyth Banger
#63. Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.
Graham O'Connell
#64. Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
Aldous Huxley
#65. Anyway, knowledge isn't wisdom, and we aren't here just to stuff ourselves with facts and figures. We are given this life so we might earn the next; the gift is a chance to grow in spirit, and knowledge is one of the many nutrients that facilitate our growth.
Dean Koontz
#66. That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
#67. There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.
Winston Churchill
#68. Handling an emotional crisis leads to greater wisdom and results in lifetime benefits. Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them. Once we have mastery over our feelings, our fear of life diminishes.
David R. Hawkins
#70. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
Rachel Carson
#72. Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts ... they lie unquestioned, uncombined
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun, but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#73. All knowledge meets an end at the question ' ... Why?
Criss Jami
