Wisdom Quotes

Pearl buck - there is an alchemy in sorrow. it can be...
It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious.
Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
Bible, Proverbs, 4: 7
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Claire Menninge
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
Author Unknown
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass
Aeschylus - he who learns must suffer. and even in our sleep...
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
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
Epicurus - of all the things which wisdom provides to make...
To know when to be generous and when to be firm - - This is wisdom.
Elbert Hubbard
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.
Yula Moses
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuh
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
Hermann Hesse
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far - Seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.
Joseph Wood Krutch
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander, Unidentified fragment
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkne
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farra
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
Aldous Huxley
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Henry Mille
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - And stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove - Lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove - Lid again - And that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord Ritchie - Calde
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
John Russell
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
John Milton
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.
Seneca