Wisdom Quotes

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

Mark Twain

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

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".

Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.

Bible, Proverbs, 4: 7

If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

Francis Quarles

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Henry Mille

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

Ron Wild

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

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

To know when to be generous and when to be firm - - This is wisdom.

Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

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

Elbert Hubbard

I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.

Tim Burton, Burton On Burton

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot, The Rock

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Merry Browne

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

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

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A prudent question is one - Half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

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

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

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fea

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

M Scott Peck

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Aristotle

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

William Hazlitt

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

Edmund Burke

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

Author Unknown

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

Vernon Coope

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Horace

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Patrick