Wisdom Quotes

Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.

Romanian Prove

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

By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.

Isocrates

Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.

Yula Moses

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Greek Prove

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.

Edmund Burke

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

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.

Simone Weil

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkne

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Aristotle

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Sir Francis Bacon

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wilfrid Sheed

In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.

Rabbi Ben - Azai

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Herbert Clark Hoove

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

Between the amateur and the professional... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

Bernard De Voto

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

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Patrick

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai

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

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Sir John Harington

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.

Juvenal

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

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

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Sophocles

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

Saint Augustine