Wisdom Quotes
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
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.Horace
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu
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
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.Charles Hamilton Aide
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.Mark Twain
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.Tryon Edwards
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.H. L. Mencken
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.Laurence Sterne
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
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
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".
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.Thomas Jefferson
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
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.William Hazlitt
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.Joseph Roux
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.Juvenal
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.William Frank Buckley, Jr.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.Saint Augustine
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.Unknown
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.Romanian Prove
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.Charles Dickens
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
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.Bias
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Sophocles
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.Sir Francis Bacon
