Wisdom Quotes

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.
Edmund Burke
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
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
Mark Twain
William faulkne - the end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose...
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
Yula moses - wisdom is harder to do than it is to know....
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Sir Francis Bacon
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
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
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
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
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt
Sophocles - wisdom is the supreme part of happiness....
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide - Angle lens.
Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
There is no wisdom without love.
N. Sri Ram
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
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
Andrew Johnson
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
Count Oxenstierna
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
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
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord Ritchie - Calde
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
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
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