Wisdom Quotes
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.Merry Browne
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
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.Bible, Proverbs, 4: 7
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.Isocrates
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.Karl Kraus
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.Madame Necke
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Henry David Thoreau
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Sophocles
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.Sir John Harington
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.Sophocles
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.Omar Bradley
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.Tryon Edwards
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fea
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
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.Louis D. Brandeis
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.Robbie Gass
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
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 flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.Horace, Epistles
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
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.Theodore Roosevelt
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.Socrates, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.Edmund Burke
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.John Henry Cardinal Newman
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Sir Francis Bacon
