Wisdom Quotes

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

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

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.

Author Unknown

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Lord Ritchie - Calde

Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far - Seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

Joseph Wood Krutch

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Seneca

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

Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fische

Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide - Angle lens.

Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf

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

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

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

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.

Author Unknown

Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.

Isocrates

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

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982

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

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

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

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Churton Collins

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

T. S. Eliot

It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.

Persian 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

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

John Stuart Mill

Wisdom comes with winters.

Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

John Russell

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Karl Kraus

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

Laurence Sterne