Wisdom Quotes

Igor fyodorovich stravinsky - i have learned throughout my life as a composer...
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elde
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
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
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Author Unknown
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Jean Bodin
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.
Samuel Smiles
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
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.
Chinese Prove
He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.
Benjamin Franklin
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
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.
Christine Lane
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.
Sir Philip Sidney
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
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Mark Twain
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
Saint Augustine
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fische
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Greek Prove
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".
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Horace, Epistles
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius, Analects
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander, Unidentified fragment
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
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis Hutcheson
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
Christine Lane
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
Heywood
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
Seneca
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
Caecilius Statius
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
Herbert Clark Hoove
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius