Wisdom Quotes

Plutarch - to make no mistakes is not in the power of man;...
Reinhold niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943 - god, give us grace to accept with serenity the...
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Walter Stegne
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 denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis Hutcheson
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.
Joey Adams
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
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Ron Wild
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.
Yula Moses
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
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".
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?
Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
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 the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken