Wisdom Quotes
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.C. C. Colton
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo
In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.Rabbi Ben - Azai
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.Walter Lippmann
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.Proverbs 47 - 8
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.Sid Taylo
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.William Blake
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.Hugo De Groot
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
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.Laurence Sterne
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Sir Francis Bacon
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.Lord Ritchie - Calde
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.Lactantius
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.Sir John Harington
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu, On Leveling All Things
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.Sophocles
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.Tryon Edwards
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
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.Aldous Huxley
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.Thomas Carlyle
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.Wilfrid Sheed
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.Honore De Balzac
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814
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
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
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.Robbie Gass
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
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.Jonathan Swift
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.Greek Prove
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.John Russell
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.Socrates
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.Author Unknown
