Wisdom Quotes
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious.Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.Tryon Edwards
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
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.Seneca
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.Jonathan Swift
Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.W. M. L. Jay
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.Louis D. Brandeis
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.Horace, Epistles
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.Charles Hamilton Aide
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
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
Between the amateur and the professional... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.Bernard De Voto
A prudent question is one - Half of wisdom.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
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.Confucius
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
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.Sacha Guitry
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.Seymour Britchky
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.Margaret Fulle
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.Henry Mille
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
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.Sir John Harington
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
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.Marilyn vos Savant
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
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
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 be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.Henry David Thoreau
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.Isocrates
Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide - Angle lens.Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
