Wisdom Quotes
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.Primo Levi
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.Honore De Balzac
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
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.Heywood
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.W. R. Inge
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.Simone Weil
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.Epicurus
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.Margaret Fulle
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.Sir Francis Bacon
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.Joseph Addison
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
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.Mary Howitt
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.C. C. Colton
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.R. W. Alge
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.M Scott Peck
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
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
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
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.Juvenal
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.Saint Augustine
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.Author Unknown
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.Lactantius
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.Author Unknown
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.Lord Ritchie - Calde
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
