Wisdom Quotes
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.Author Unknown
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Sophocles
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.Horace
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.Felix Frankfurte
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
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
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.William Wordsworth
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
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.Dr. William Claire Menninge
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.Charles Caleb Colton
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.Horace, Epistles
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.Christine Lane
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.Francis Hutcheson
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.Theodore Rubin
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.Henry Mille
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.Karl Kraus
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.Jonathan Swift
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.Heywood
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
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 sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?Martin Tuppe
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.Merry Browne
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.Christine Lane
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
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.Hermann Hesse
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.Madame Necke
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.Pierre Abelard
