Wisdom Quotes

In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.

Rabbi Ben - Azai

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace, Odes

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Kahlil Gibran

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

To know when to be generous and when to be firm - - This is wisdom.

Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

Francis Hutcheson

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Hal Borland

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Bias

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.

R. W. Alge

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

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

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

Author Unknown

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Mark Twain

A prudent question is one - Half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang - Tzu

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

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

W. R. Inge

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

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Sir Francis Bacon

Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.

Bible, Proverbs, 4: 7

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot, The Rock

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

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 duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.

Tryon Edwards

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

Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.

Seymour Britchky

Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Martin Tuppe

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Greek Prove

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche