Wisdom Quotes
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.Romanian Prove
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
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.Pearl Buck
It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.George Whitehead
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete.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
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.Aldous Huxley
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.Jimi Hendrix
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.Henry David Thoreau
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.Walter Lippmann
It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious.Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa
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
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.Horace
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
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
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.G. K. Chesterton
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.Seymour Britchky
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
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
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.Author Unknown
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Henry David Thoreau
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.John Selden
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.Theodore Rubin
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.Charles Dickens
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.Bias
The extreme limit of wisdom - - That is what the public calls madness.Jean Cocteau
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.Francis Quarles
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Sophocles
A prudent question is one - Half of wisdom.Francis Bacon
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.Chinese Prove
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.M Scott Peck
