Wisdom Quotes
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.Cato the Elde
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
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
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.Author Unknown
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.Sir Philip Sidney
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
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
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.Alfred Victor Vigny
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.Mark Twain
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.Christine Lane
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.Caecilius Statius
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.Friedrich Nietzsche
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - And stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove - Lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove - Lid again - And that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.Mark Twain
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.Churton Collins
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.Mary Howitt
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.Tim Burton, Burton On Burton
Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.Theodore Roosevelt
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.William Hazlitt
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.Horace
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.Samuel Smiles
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.Bias
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.Sir Francis Bacon
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
Patience is the companion of wisdom.Saint Augustine
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.Herbert Clark Hoove
