Wisdom Quotes

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Martin Tuppe

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Patrick

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

M Scott Peck

It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.

George Whitehead

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Vernon Coope

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

Norman Douglas

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.

Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna

To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?

Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Sir John Harington

Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.

Persian Prove

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

Dr. William Claire Menninge

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Aristotle

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967