Wisdom Quotes

Sir francis bacon - there is a difference between happiness and...
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Jean Bodin
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, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
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
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
T. S. Eliot
Christine lane - dedication and responsibility, far beyond the...
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.
Seneca
Seneca - wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as...
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
Norman Douglas
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fea
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
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuh
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.
Chinese Prove
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
Author Unknown
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
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
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
Sydney Harris
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.
Author Unknown
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Horace, Epistles
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.
Proverbs 47 - 8
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
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
Christine Lane
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar Bradley
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
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
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
Seneca
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Walter Stegne
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
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud