Wisdom Quotes

Francis bacon - a prudent question is one - half of wisdom....
Chuang - tzu, on leveling all things - great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is...
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
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
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Bible, Colossians 3: 16
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
Author Unknown
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
Laurence Sterne
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Rubin
An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis? Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?
Count Oxenstierna, letter to his son, 1648
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
Jonathan Swift
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fische
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.
Chinese Prove
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Greek Prove
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
Christine Lane