Wisdom Quotes

Tim burton, burton on burton - i was very strange back then. i could see i had...
Bible, colossians 3: 16 - let the word of christ dwell in you richly, as...
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace, Odes
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
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Author Unknown
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Ron Wild
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fische
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.
Edmund Burke
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
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
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Henry Mille
Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
Count Oxenstierna
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
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James Abram Garfield
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
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
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
W. R. Inge