Wisdom Quotes
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.John Selden
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
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
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.Dr. William Claire Menninge
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
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.Sir Francis Bacon
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.R. W. Alge
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.Author Unknown
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.Thomas Jefferson
An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis? Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna, letter to his son, 1648
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
Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.Theodore Roosevelt
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.Plutarch
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.James Ramsey
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.Friedrich Nietzsche
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.Bhagavad Gita
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.Seneca
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.Marilyn vos Savant
There is no wisdom without love.N. Sri Ram
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.Hermann Hesse
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.William Wordsworth
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
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.Sophocles, Antigone
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.General Omar Bradley
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.William Faulkne
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.Aristophanes
