Wisdom Quotes
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.Author Unknown
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.Isocrates
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.Confucius
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.Bible, Proverbs, 4: 7
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.Charles Caleb Colton
An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis? Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna, letter to his son, 1648
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.Martin H. Fische
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.John Milton
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.C. C. Colton
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
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.Thomas Jefferson
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.Author Unknown
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.Plutarch
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
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".
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
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
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
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
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.Sophocles
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.Joey Adams
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.Tryon Edwards
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.General Omar Bradley
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
Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.Persian Prove
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.Ron Wild
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.Horace
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius, Analects
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.Charles Dickens
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.Thomas Carlyle
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, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.
To know when to be generous and when to be firm - - This is wisdom.Elbert Hubbard
