Wisdom Quotes
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
The doors of wisdom are never shut.Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna
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
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.Hermann Hesse
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.Henry Mille
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
To know when to be generous and when to be firm - - This is wisdom.Elbert Hubbard
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.Aristotle
Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide - Angle lens.Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.John Buchan
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
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.Sir Francis Bacon
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.Felix Frankfurte
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.Madame Necke
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.W. R. Inge
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.John Kenneth Galbraith
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu, On Leveling All Things
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fea
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.Hal Borland
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
Patience is the companion of wisdom.Saint Augustine
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
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 study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
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
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Sophocles
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.John Stuart Mill
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.Sigmund Freud
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
