Wisdom Quotes

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.

South

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Sacha Guitry

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.

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

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

T. S. Eliot

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - - And stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - - And that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

Aldous Huxley

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Seneca

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 beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.

Chinese Prove

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Churton Collins

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.

Bible, Proverbs, 4: 7

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

Francis Quarles

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Herbert Clark Hoove