Wisdom Quotes

William hazlitt - to think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to...
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?
Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.
Persian Prove
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Author Unknown
John milton - accuse not nature, she hath done her partdo thou...
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
Alfred Victor Vigny
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sir francis bacon - there is no great concurrence between learning...
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.
Tim Burton, Burton On Burton
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.
Yula Moses
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
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".
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander, Unidentified fragment
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
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
Laurence Sterne
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
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
In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.
Rabbi Ben - Azai
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
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
Bill Clinton, 2004 democratic convention speech
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
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Sir John Denham
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.
Bhagavad Gita
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.
Unknown
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace, Odes