Wisdom Quotes
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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
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
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.Hugo De Groot
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
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.Aldous Huxley
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.M Scott Peck
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.Bias
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
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.Karl Kraus
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, Antigone
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
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
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
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.Author Unknown
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 wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.Saint Augustine
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.Caecilius Statius
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
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.Proverbs 47 - 8
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 down on a hot stove - Lid again - And that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.Mark Twain
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.Bhagavad Gita
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.Lord Ritchie - Calde
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.Baltasar Gracian
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.John Selden
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
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.Sir Philip Sidney
