Wisdom Quotes
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.Author Unknown
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.Marilyn vos Savant
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.Baltasar Gracian
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.Chinese Prove
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.Sid Taylo
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.Aldous Huxley
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.Juvenal
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.Richard Needham
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
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.Henry Mille
Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.Greek Prove
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.M Scott Peck
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.William Hazlitt
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
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
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.Author Unknown
Wisdom begins in wonder.Socrates
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.Jonathan Swift
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.Samuel Smiles
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
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
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
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.John Stuart Mill
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.Sacha Guitry
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.John Patrick
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.Francis Quarles
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.Horace, Epistles
Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.Persian Prove
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.Joseph Roux
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.Chinese Prove
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
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.Jack Kerouac
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.Sophocles
