Wisdom Quotes

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
M Scott Peck
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Author Unknown
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
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
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
Igor fyodorovich stravinsky - i have learned throughout my life as a composer...
A prudent question is one - Half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Socrates, in
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
Sydney Harris
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
Seneca - the arts are the servant; wisdom its master....
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.
Seymour Britchky
To know when to be generous and when to be firm - - This is wisdom.
Elbert Hubbard
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Rubin
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
T. S. Eliot
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
Merry Browne
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
Wisdom comes with winters.
Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
John Russell
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
Author Unknown
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
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.
Joey Adams
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
Madame Necke
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis Hutcheson
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
Aldous Huxley
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.
Author Unknown
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.
Proverbs 47 - 8
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elde
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