Wisdom Quotes
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.Author Unknown
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.Martin H. Fische
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
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
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.Merry Browne
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
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.Chinese Prove
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fea
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.Felix Frankfurte
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
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.Horace
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.Aristophanes
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu, On Leveling All Things
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.T. S. Eliot
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.Baltasar Gracian
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
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
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.Seneca
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.John Kenneth Galbraith
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.M Scott Peck
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.Karl Kraus
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.Walter Lippmann
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.Edmund Burke
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
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.Horace, Odes
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.Mark Twain
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
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
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.Simone Weil
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.Author Unknown
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
