Wisdom Quotes

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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
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
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal
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
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Sir John Harington
Reinhold niebuh - god, grant me the serenity to accept the things i...
I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
Heywood
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
Henry david thoreau, wednesday, a week on the concord and merrimack rivers - ignorance and bungling with love are better than...
There is no wisdom without love.
N. Sri Ram
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuh
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore De Balzac
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James Abram Garfield
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.
Richard Needham
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.
Author Unknown
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar Bradley
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
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fische
The arts are the servant wisdom its master.
Seneca
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
Laurence Sterne
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
Mark Twain
He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.
Benjamin Franklin
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt
It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
Christine Lane
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 from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry