Wisdom Quotes

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

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo

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

Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.

Yula Moses

It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.

George Whitehead

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

T. S. Eliot

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

W. R. Inge

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

Sir Francis Bacon

Between the amateur and the professional... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

Bernard De Voto

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander, Unidentified fragment

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

Aldous Huxley

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.

Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

Author Unknown

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

God 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.

Reinhold Niebuh

Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Sir John Denham

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.

Romanian Prove

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

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang - Tzu, On Leveling All Things

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

To know when to be generous and when to be firm - - This is wisdom.

Elbert Hubbard

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Kahlil Gibran

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkne

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.

Unknown

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

There is no wisdom without love.

N. Sri Ram

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Bill Clinton, 2004 democratic convention speech

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.

Richard Needham

The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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