Wisdom Quotes

There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Ron Wild
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran
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
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
John Russell
Sir francis bacon - there is a difference between happiness and...
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
Francis quarles - if thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth,...
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Coope
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
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
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.
Christine Lane
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fea
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.
Chinese Prove
Henry mille - our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we...
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
T. S. Eliot
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
James Ramsey
I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.
Tim Burton, Burton On Burton
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
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
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide - Angle lens.
Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
Madame Necke
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
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord Ritchie - Calde
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Pearl Buck
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
Heywood
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
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