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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- James Boswell
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Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian

2.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Larson, Doug

3.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.
Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
Ward, William A.

5.
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]
Bible

6.
Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

7.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
James Boswell

8.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

9.
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Levenson, Samuel

10.
The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
Proverb, German

11.
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

12.
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Boileau, Nicholas

13.
Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
Oprah Winfrey

14.
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass

15.
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Epictetus

16.
Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
Billings, Josh

17.
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.
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

19.
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
Taylor, Sid

20.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.
Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
Evans, Bergen

22.
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
Proverb, African

24.
Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.
Smollett, Tobias G.

25.
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maeterlinck, Maurice

27.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Franklin, Benjamin

28.
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
Bacon, Francis

29.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Mencken, H. L.

30.
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

31.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Twain, Mark

32.
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

33.
The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

34.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Proverb, Chinese

35.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Carlyle, Thomas

36.
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

37.
Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

38.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius

39.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]
Bible

40.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

41.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Gabirol, Ibn

42.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Santayana, George

43.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

44.
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

45.
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

46.
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
Covey, Stephen R.

47.
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
Socrates

48.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
Blake, William

50.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Franklin, Benjamin


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