Wisdom Quotes

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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
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurte
There is no wisdom without love.
N. Sri Ram
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Greek Prove
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
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
Merry Browne
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
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
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farra
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
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
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
Bill Clinton, 2004 democratic convention speech
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Author Unknown
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.
Yula Moses
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
Author Unknown
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
John Buchan
Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.
Romanian Prove
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
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.
Joey Adams
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
Horace
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
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
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