Wisdom Quotes

Igor stravinsky - i have learned throughout my life as a composer...
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fische
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
John Russell
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
Bertolt brecht, the life of galileo - the aim of science is not to open the door to...
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
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
Joey adams - many a crown of wisdom is but the golden...
Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Greek Prove
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.
Yula Moses
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
Christine Lane
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.
Benjamin Franklin
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
Count Oxenstierna
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
Author Unknown
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Walter Stegne
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Chinese Prove
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
Author Unknown
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Horace, Odes
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
Lord 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.
Saint Francis of Assisi
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
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Cardinal Newman