Wisdom Quotes

Greek prove - gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom....
Seneca - the arts are the servant; wisdom its master....
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
Bible, Proverbs, 4: 7
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis Hutcheson
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis
A prudent question is one - Half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
Bias
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
Sydney Harris
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elde
Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Horace, Epistles
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.
Sir Philip Sidney
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
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
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Chuang - Tzu
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.
Rabbi Ben - Azai
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace, Odes
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James Abram Garfield
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.
Bhagavad Gita
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sir John Harington