Wisdom Quotes

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
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Visions of gregorian chants - from the persistence of noise comes the...
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
H. l. mencken - the older i grow the more i distrust the familiar...
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.
Sir Philip Sidney
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
Sophocles
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
General Omar Bradley
Immanuel kant - science is organized knowledge. wisdom is...
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
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
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
Mark Twain
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
R. W. Alge
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fische
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
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore De Balzac
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 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
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
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
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Coope
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
James Ramsey
Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide - Angle lens.
Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
John Buchan
There is no wisdom without love.
N. Sri Ram
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkne