Wisdom Quotes

Seneca - the arts are the servant; wisdom its master....
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.
Richard Needham
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
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Chinese prove - the beginning of wisdom is calling things by...
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
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
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
Merry Browne
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
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Pierre abelard - the beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by...
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.
Edmund Burke
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkne
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius, Analects
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
Jonathan Swift
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.
Francis Quarles
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
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James Abram Garfield
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Greek Prove
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
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
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elde
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Chuang - Tzu
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
Aldous Huxley