Wisdom Quotes
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.Felix Frankfurte
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.Horace
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.Tryon Edwards
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
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.Romanian Prove
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 fear is present, wisdom cannot be.Lactantius
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Sophocles
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
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
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.Aristophanes
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.Kahlil Gibran
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.Jonathan Swift
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.Ron Wild
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
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
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.Sigmund Freud
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.Greek Prove
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.Honore De Balzac
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.Herbert Clark Hoove
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.Author Unknown
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.Laurence Sterne
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Patience is the companion of wisdom.Saint Augustine
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.Merry Browne
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.Margaret Fulle
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.Henry Mille
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.Charles Hamilton Aide
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.Seneca
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