Wisdom Quotes

Richard needham - it is the part of wisdom to keep your word and...
Robert frost - a poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom....
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.
Unknown
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
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
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace, Odes
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Henry Mille
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Jean Bodin
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elde
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkne
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
C. C. Colton
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
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
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
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
John Russell
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
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
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
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.
Joey Adams
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
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Thomas Jefferson
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fea