Wisdom Quotes

Martin h. fische - knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom...
William wordsworth - wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when...
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
R. W. Alge
Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
John Buchan
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.
Seymour Britchky
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
Sid Taylo
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elde
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.
Edmund Burke
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore De Balzac
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
Horace
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
W. R. Inge
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fulle
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.
Primo Levi
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.
Joey Adams
Wisdom comes with winters.
Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James Abram Garfield
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
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
Christine Lane
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace, Odes
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?
Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
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
To know when to be generous and when to be firm - - This is wisdom.
Elbert Hubbard
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison