Wisdom Quotes
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fea
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.John Selden
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.Aristotle
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
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
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.Persian Prove
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.Francis Hutcheson
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
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.Charles Dickens
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
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.Socrates
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.Lord Ritchie - Calde
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
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
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
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.Robert Frost
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
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.H. L. Mencken
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
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
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
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
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.John Patrick
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.Felix Frankfurte
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 on a hot stove lid again - - And that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.Mark Twain
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.Greek Prove
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.Henry Mille
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.Kahlil Gibran
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
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.Jonathan Swift