Wisdom Quotes

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

W. R. Inge

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander, Unidentified fragment

Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.

Andrew Johnson

Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Merry Browne

There is no wisdom without love.

N. Sri Ram

Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

Dr. William Claire Menninge

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Patrick

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.

Sydney Harris

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Rubin

Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide - Angle lens.

Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Hal Borland

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Martin Tuppe

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