Wisdom Quotes
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.Unknown
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.Horace
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
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
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.John Kenneth Galbraith
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.Sir Philip Sidney
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.Nathaniel Hawthorne
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.Horace, Odes
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.Seneca
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
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.Author Unknown
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fea
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.William Blake
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.Madame Necke
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.Author Unknown
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?T. S. Eliot, The Rock
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
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.Heywood
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
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
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.Bible, Colossians 3: 16
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.James Ramsey
Patience is the companion of wisdom.Saint Augustine
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.Sophocles
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.Bill Clinton, 2004 democratic convention speech
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.John Buchan
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
