Wisdom Quotes
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.Plutarch
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.C. C. Colton
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.Epicurus
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.Charles Hamilton Aide
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
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
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self - Praise, and all the ill - Desert of falsehood.Tyron Edwards
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.Marilyn vos Savant
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.Honore De Balzac
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.Robbie Gass
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.Author Unknown
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.Alfred Victor Vigny
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
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.Laurence Sterne
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".
He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom begins in wonder.Socrates
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.
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.Joseph Addison
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.Churton Collins
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
Between the amateur and the professional... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.Bernard De Voto
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.Sigmund Freud
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.Author Unknown
Wisdom comes with winters.Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.Hugo De Groot
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.Seymour Britchky
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
