Wisdom Quotes
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.Joey Adams
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.Horace, Odes
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.Yula Moses
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuh
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 on a hot stove lid again - - And that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.Mark Twain
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
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
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
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.Sir Francis Bacon
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.Author Unknown
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.Isocrates
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.Juvenal
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
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.Sophocles
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.John Henry Cardinal Newman
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.Simone Weil
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
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
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
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.Baltasar Gracian
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
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.Charles Dickens
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.Churton Collins
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.Chinese Prove
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.Karl Kraus
