Wisdom Quotes

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
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
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Jean Bodin
Lord ritchie - calde - science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge....
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.
Christine Lane
Seneca - the arts are the servant wisdom its master....
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
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
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
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
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.
Francis Quarles
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
R. W. Alge
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis
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
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
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
Caecilius Statius
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Greek Prove
Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Greek Prove
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
Bias
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 sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
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
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
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
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
Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide - Angle lens.
Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
John Russell
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen