Wisdom Quotes
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.Author Unknown
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.Juvenal
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.Abraham Lincoln
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.Merry Browne
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.Marilyn vos Savant
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.Albert Einstein
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.John Selden
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.William Faulkne
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.Seneca
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.Saint Augustine
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.Elbert Hubbard
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.Edmund Burke
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".
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.William Frank Buckley, Jr.
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.M Scott Peck
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.Sophocles, Antigone
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far - Seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.Joseph Wood Krutch
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.John Milton
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.Kahlil Gibran
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.John Henry Cardinal Newman
In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.Rabbi Ben - Azai
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.Chinese Prove
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.R. W. Alge
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.John Kenneth Galbraith
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
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
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.Francis Hutcheson
Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.Persian Prove
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.Sigmund Freud
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.Sid Taylo
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
