Wisdom Quotes
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.Aldous Huxley
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.Heywood
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
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
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.Sid Taylo
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
Lord 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.Saint Francis of Assisi
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.Madame Necke
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.John Buchan
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.Robert Frost
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.Bhagavad Gita
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
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.Charles Dickens
Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.Persian Prove
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
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far - Seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.Joseph Wood Krutch
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.John Kenneth Galbraith
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.Hal Borland
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.Epicurus
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.Robbie Gass
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.Thomas Carlyle
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
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.Author Unknown
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
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.Mark Twain
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.Margaret Fulle
