Wisdom Quotes
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.Pierre Abelard
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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?Martin Tuppe
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.Bill Clinton, 2004 democratic convention speech
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.Omar Bradley
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.Tryon Edwards
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.Author Unknown
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.Mary Howitt
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.Margaret Fulle
Wisdom comes with winters.Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.
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
Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.Romanian Prove
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Sophocles
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Sophocles
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
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.Theodore Rubin
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.Horace, Odes
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.Felix Frankfurte
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.Epicurus
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.John Stuart Mill
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.W. R. Inge
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
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".
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.Charles Dickens
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
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
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.Horace
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
