Wisdom Quotes

Juvenal - nature never says one thing, wisdom another....
William frank buckley, jr. - i mean to live my life an obedient man, but...
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
Bill Clinton, 2004 democratic convention speech
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
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.
Primo Levi
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
Jonathan Swift
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Author Unknown
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
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
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Sir John Denham
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord Ritchie - Calde
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Chinese Prove
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
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
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
R. W. Alge
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Thomas Jefferson
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
Saint Augustine
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
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Claire Menninge
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace, Odes
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
Norman Douglas
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
Count Oxenstierna
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
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
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
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.
Yula Moses
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far - Seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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