Wisdom Quotes

Bible, proverbs, 4: 7 - wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get...
Ralph waldo emerson - i am sure of this, that by going much alone a man...
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
Sydney Harris
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Walter Stegne
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far - Seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar Bradley
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Ron Wild
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
Count Oxenstierna
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.
Primo Levi
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
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
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
Jonathan Swift
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.
Richard Needham
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles, Antigone
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
General Omar Bradley
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
Alfred Victor Vigny
An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis? Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?
Count Oxenstierna, letter to his son, 1648
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau
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
There is no great concurrence between learning and 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
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Stewart Paton
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Rubin
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Chinese Prove
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
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
W. R. Inge
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
Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.
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