Wisdom Quotes

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
T. S. Eliot
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
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.
Thomas jefferson - some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Henry Mille
Henry david thoreau - a man is wise with the wisdom of his time only,...
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
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
Laurence Sterne
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles, Antigone
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.
Seymour Britchky
Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Greek Prove
Lin yutang, o magazine, october 2002 - besides the noble art of getting things done,...
Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.
Yula Moses
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.
Tim Burton, Burton On Burton
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
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Coope
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Greek Prove
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
Christine Lane
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
William Frank Buckley, Jr.
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
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, Antigone
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
John Russell
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Horace, Epistles
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self - Praise, and all the ill - Desert of falsehood.
Tyron Edwards
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