Wisdom Quotes

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

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Horace

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

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

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.

Edmund Burke

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Cato the Elde

Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.

Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna

There is no wisdom without love.

N. Sri Ram

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Hal Borland

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Sir John Harington

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

Madame Necke

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

The arts are the servant wisdom its master.

Seneca

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

Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Sir John Denham

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

John Buchan

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wilfrid Sheed

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

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Vernon Coope

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

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Sir Francis Bacon

Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.

Romanian Prove

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Mark Twain

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus