Wisdom Quotes

Socrates, in
Herbert clark hoove - wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do...
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fea
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fulle
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
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord Ritchie - Calde
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Rubin
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca
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.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Greek Prove
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis Hutcheson
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
Christine Lane
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuh
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
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
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Saint Francis of Assisi
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
Heywood
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
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
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
Laurence Sterne
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles