Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Sophocles
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.Hermann Hesse
An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis? Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna, letter to his son, 1648
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.South
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.Joseph Roux
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?Martin Tuppe
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.Jonathan Swift
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.Martin H. Fische
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.G. K. Chesterton
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.Author Unknown
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.Joey Adams
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.Horace, Epistles
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.Mary Howitt
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.Seymour Britchky
It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious.Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.Aristotle
It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.George Whitehead
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.Chinese Prove
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.Sophocles
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.John Russell
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.Lactantius
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".
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.Tryon Edwards
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.Isocrates
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.Sir Philip Sidney
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.Rabbi Ben - Azai
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".
