Wisdom Quotes

Immanuel kant, critique of practical reason - the inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is...
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
Heywood
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Bible, Colossians 3: 16
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
Laurence Sterne
Emanuel swedenborg, from the book
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
Mark Twain
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
T. S. Eliot
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurte
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
Wilfrid sheed - one reason the human race has such a low opinion...
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
Author Unknown
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
General Omar Bradley
An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis? Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?
Count Oxenstierna, letter to his son, 1648
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.
Seneca
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Claire Menninge
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
Sophocles
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.
Simone Weil
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
Aldous Huxley
Lord 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.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord Ritchie - Calde
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius, Analects
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau
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
A prudent question is one - Half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.
Benjamin Franklin
It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.
George Whitehead
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Henry Mille
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
Caecilius Statius
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