Wisdom Quotes

Friedrich nietzsche - wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge....
John selden - no man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom...
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sir John Harington
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
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
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Greek Prove
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
Author Unknown
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
M Scott Peck
Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Greek Prove
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt
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
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.
Samuel Smiles
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
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.
Seneca
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.
Richard Needham
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Chuang - Tzu, On Leveling All Things
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.
Edmund Burke
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
Horace
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
John Russell
He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.
Benjamin Franklin
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
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
W. R. Inge
Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".
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
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
Author Unknown
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
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
To know when to be generous and when to be firm - - This is wisdom.
Elbert Hubbard
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
Bias
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
Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.
Romanian Prove