Wisdom Quotes

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 on a hot stove lid again - - And that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Lord Ritchie - Calde

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wilfrid Sheed

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore De Balzac

Lord 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.

Saint Francis of Assisi

In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.

Rabbi Ben - Azai

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

Chinese Prove

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.

Proverbs 47 - 8

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

M Scott Peck

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

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

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Mary Howitt

A prudent question is one - Half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.

Edmund Burke

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

W. M. L. Jay

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Cato the Elde

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

The arts are the servant wisdom its master.

Seneca

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

John Stuart Mill

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".

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

Mark Twain

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Herbert Clark Hoove

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Churton Collins

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935

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