Best Quotes about Wisdom
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Wise men still seek Him today.
Bell, Dan
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
James Boswell
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
Young, Andrew
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
Butler, Samuel
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Tolstoy, Count Leo
Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.
Fitzhenry, R. I.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Blake, William
A nation's treasure is its scholars.
Proverb, Yiddish
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Gibran, Kahlil
What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Borland, Hal
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Ziggy
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
Buddha
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Colton, Charles Caleb
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Kraus, Karl
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Hoover, Herbert Clark
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Epictetus
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Collins, John Churton
There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
Luther, Martin
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Twain, Mark
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
Cheever, John
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
Bouton, E. S.
The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
Proverb, German
Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.
Bible
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato The Elder
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower
The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.
Cocteau, Jean
Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]
Bible
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
Asimov, Isaac
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.
Cudworth, Ralph J.
Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.
Bible
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]
Bible
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
Edmund Burke
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Russell, Bertrand
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
Smiles, Samuel
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Coolidge, Calvin
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Noll, Chuck
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.
Freud, Sigmund
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