Wisdom Quotes

Elbert hubbard - every man is a damn fool for at least five...
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete.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
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
Sir francis bacon - there is a difference between happiness and...
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Chuang - Tzu
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elde
Saint augustine - patience is the companion of wisdom....
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
Herbert Clark Hoove
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
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.
Yula Moses
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius, Analects
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
William Frank Buckley, Jr.
Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.
Persian Prove
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fische
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Pearl Buck
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
Seneca
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.
Unknown
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander, Unidentified fragment
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sir John Harington
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
Heywood
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
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