Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.Kahlil Gibran
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.Tryon Edwards
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.Ron Wild
I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.Tim Burton, Burton On Burton
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.Sir Philip Sidney
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.Dr. William Claire Menninge
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.Author Unknown
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.Caecilius Statius
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
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.Cato the Elde
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.Mark Twain
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.Margaret Fulle
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.T. S. Eliot
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
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
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.Christine Lane
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.John Milton
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.William Blake
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 attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.Epicurus
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.Marilyn vos Savant
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.W. R. Inge
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
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
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.Sir Francis Bacon
Wisdom begins in wonder.Socrates
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.Karl Kraus
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
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
There is no wisdom without love.N. Sri Ram
Patience is the companion of wisdom.Saint Augustine
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan
