Wisdom Quotes

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
T. S. Eliot
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sir John Harington
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander, Unidentified fragment
Between the amateur and the professional... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
Bernard De Voto
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
General Omar Bradley
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
There is no wisdom without love.
N. Sri Ram
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Mark Twain
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
A prudent question is one - Half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
John Russell
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
M Scott Peck
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace, Odes
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
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 on a hot stove lid again - - And that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fulle
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.
Sir Philip Sidney
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
Bible, Proverbs, 4: 7
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurte
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
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
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.
Rabbi Ben - Azai
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