Wisdom Quotes

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

Author Unknown

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Horace

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius

Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.

Seymour Britchky

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

Sir Francis Bacon

Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Bias

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

Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.

Tryon Edwards

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

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Sir Francis Bacon

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

John Buchan

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

Francis Hutcheson

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Sophocles

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.

Sir Philip Sidney

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

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

Elbert Hubbard

To know when to be generous and when to be firm - - This is wisdom.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Omar Bradley

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

T. S. Eliot, The Rock

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

J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Aristotle

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Greek Prove

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom

Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.

Yula Moses

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Walter Stegne

It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious.

Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa