Wisdom Quotes

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fische

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

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

There is no wisdom without love.

N. Sri Ram

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.

R. W. Alge

Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Greek Prove

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935

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

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

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles, Antigone

How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315

The arts are the servant wisdom its master.

Seneca

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

Norman Douglas

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Benjamin Franklin

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius

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

Thomas Carlyle

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farra

Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

A prudent question is one - Half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

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

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

W. R. Inge

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Sir John Harington

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux

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

Charles Hamilton Aide

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander, Unidentified fragment

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

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

Edmund Burke

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

Dr. William Claire Menninge