Wisdom Quotes

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis Hutcheson
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran
Richard needham - it is the part of wisdom to keep your word and...
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
John Russell
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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
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkne
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.
Yula Moses
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
Seneca
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Jean Bodin
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
In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.
Rabbi Ben - Azai
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
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
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
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Chuang - Tzu
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
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
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
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
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
Author Unknown
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
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.
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