Wisdom Quotes

William blake - innocence dwells with wisdom, but never with...
Benjamin disraeli - the wisdom of the wise, and the experience of...
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Coope
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Chinese Prove
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Author Unknown
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Stewart Paton
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
Bill Clinton, 2004 democratic convention speech
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkne
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.
Isocrates
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Mark Twain
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Bible, Colossians 3: 16
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
John Russell
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
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.
Sir Philip Sidney
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.
Christine Lane
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
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
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Horace, Epistles
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
Sophocles
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
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 is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
Bible, Proverbs, 4: 7
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
Author Unknown
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
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius, Analects
Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.
Persian Prove
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.
Edmund Burke
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
Herbert Clark Hoove
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau