Wisdom Quotes

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

John Stuart Mill

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

Dr. William Claire Menninge

There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

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

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Felix Frankfurte

Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.

Caecilius Statius

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkne

Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

John Milton

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.

Bhagavad Gita

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Lin Yutang

Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.

Persian Prove

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Bible, Colossians 3: 16

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace, Odes

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

Author Unknown

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles, Antigone

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Bill Clinton, 2004 democratic convention speech

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

H. L. Mencken

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.

Juvenal

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

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 inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self - Praise, and all the ill - Desert of falsehood.

Tyron Edwards

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius, Analects