Wisdom Quotes

Hugo de groot - ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of...
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Horace, Epistles
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fische
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.
Edmund Burke
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
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
Mikhail sergeyevich gorbachev - surely, god on high has not refused to give us...
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
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Benjamin disraeli - the wisdom of the wise and the experience of the...
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Author Unknown
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
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
Bible, Proverbs, 4: 7
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.
George Whitehead
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Rubin
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
Author Unknown
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
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
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander, Unidentified fragment
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Henry Mille
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Pearl Buck
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Greek Prove
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
Sid Taylo
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkne
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Chuang - Tzu, On Leveling All Things