Wisdom Quotes

T. s. eliot - where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge...
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.
Seneca
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran
Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
Ralph waldo emerson - i am sure of this, that by going much alone a man...
Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Greek Prove
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
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
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
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
C. C. Colton
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
T. s. eliot, the rock - where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?...
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
Herbert Clark Hoove
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.
Isocrates
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
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
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".
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
Count Oxenstierna
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
Caecilius Statius
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.
Chinese Prove
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
Mark Twain
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
Bias
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
Christine Lane
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Horace, Epistles
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elde
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
Laurence Sterne
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles, Antigone
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.
Seymour Britchky
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander, Unidentified fragment
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sir John Harington