Wisdom Quotes
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
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.Sophocles, Antigone
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
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
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
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
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.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
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
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
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.Jonathan Swift
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.Seneca
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.Isocrates
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.Theodore Rubin
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.Aldous Huxley
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.William Wordsworth
An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis? Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna, letter to his son, 1648
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?Martin Tuppe
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.General Omar Bradley
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.Dr. William Claire Menninge
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
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.Mark Twain
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.H. L. Mencken
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.Sacha Guitry
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Henry David Thoreau
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
To know when to be generous and when to be firm - - This is wisdom.Elbert Hubbard
Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.Persian Prove
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
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.Edmund Burke
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
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.William Hazlitt
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.Kahlil Gibran
