Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

Francis Hutcheson

Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.

Caecilius Statius

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Cato the Elde

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Lao Tzu

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln

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

It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.

Author Unknown

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.

Greek Prove

There is no wisdom without love.

N. Sri Ram

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

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Benjamin Franklin

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

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Martin Tuppe

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.

Joey Adams

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Kahlil Gibran

To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.

Jonathan Swift

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

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

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

Vernon Coope

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Rubin

It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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, Antigone

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

Elbert Hubbard

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

Author Unknown

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo

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

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Merry Browne

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf