Wisdom Quotes
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.James Ramsey
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.Aristophanes
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.Honore De Balzac
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.Saint Augustine
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.Benjamin Franklin
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.Theodore Roosevelt
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
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
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.Charles Dickens
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
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.R. W. Alge
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.Sigmund Freud
Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.W. M. L. Jay
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.Francis Quarles
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.John Selden
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.Socrates
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.Author Unknown
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.Confucius
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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, Antigone
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.Kahlil Gibran
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.Bias
