Wisdom Quotes
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.Author Unknown
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.Mark Twain
Between the amateur and the professional... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.Bernard De Voto
The doors of wisdom are never shut.Benjamin Franklin
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
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
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.Yula Moses
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.Menander, Unidentified fragment
A prudent question is one - Half of wisdom.Francis Bacon
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.W. R. Inge
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
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
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.Sophocles
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
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.T. S. Eliot
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.Karl Kraus
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.Aldous Huxley
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far - Seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.Joseph Wood Krutch
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
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
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide - Angle lens.Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
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
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.Sophocles
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.Churton Collins
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.Bible, Proverbs, 4: 7
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.John Henry Cardinal Newman
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - - And stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - - And that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.Mark Twain
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - And stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove - Lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove - Lid again - And that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.Mark Twain
