Wisdom Quotes
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.Kahlil Gibran
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
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
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
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Sophocles
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
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.John Kenneth Galbraith
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, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.
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
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.Sacha Guitry
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.Marilyn vos Savant
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.Isocrates
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 down on a hot stove - Lid again - And that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.Mark Twain
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.John Russell
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.Sydney Harris
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.Francis Hutcheson
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
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.Honore De Balzac
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.Herbert Clark Hoove
There is no wisdom without love.N. Sri Ram
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.Madame Necke
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.Charles Dickens
Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.Persian Prove
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.John Selden
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.Sophocles
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.Greek Prove
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.Mark Twain
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
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Coope
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.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.Benjamin Franklin
