Wisdom Quotes
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.John Patrick
Patience is the companion of wisdom.Saint Augustine
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
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
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu, On Leveling All Things
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
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
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
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
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
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.Caecilius Statius
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.Abraham Lincoln
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Saint Francis of Assisi
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.Joseph Roux
