Wisdom Quotes
Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.W. M. L. Jay
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.Honore De Balzac
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
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.Sir Philip Sidney
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.John Russell
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.H. L. Mencken
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.Jonathan Swift
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.Tryon Edwards
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.Robert Frost
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.Sophocles, Antigone
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.Sacha Guitry
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
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.Horace
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang
A prudent question is one - Half of wisdom.Francis Bacon
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.Walter Lippmann
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky
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
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
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.Heywood
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
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.William Blake
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.Author Unknown
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.Primo Levi
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.Robbie Gass
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
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
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
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
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.Mary Howitt
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.Sir Francis Bacon
