Wisdom Quotes

Bhagavad gita - as the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the...
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self - Praise, and all the ill - Desert of falsehood.
Tyron Edwards
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 seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
Aldous Huxley
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.
Author Unknown
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
Heywood - i see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a...
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
Mark Twain
Sophocles, antigone - there is no happiness where there is no wisdom;...
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
To know when to be generous and when to be firm - - This is wisdom.
Elbert Hubbard
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
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Claire Menninge
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Martin Tuppe
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
G. K. Chesterton
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
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore De Balzac
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
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
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
Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Greek Prove
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
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
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
Wisdom comes with winters.
Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle