Wisdom Quotes

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
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
R. W. Alge
Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.
Romanian Prove
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
Caecilius statius - wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat....
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
Aristophanes - a man may learn wisdom even from a foe....
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Pearl Buck
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
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
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
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot, The Rock
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
Walter lippmann - it requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music...
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
Seneca
There is no wisdom without love.
N. Sri Ram
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
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
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
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Jean Bodin
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
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
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
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
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
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
Laurence Sterne
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
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.
Seneca
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
Author Unknown
Wisdom comes with winters.
Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
Heywood