Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Friedrich NietzscheA man may learn wisdom even from a foe (The Birds)
AristophanesMen 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.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonAge does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
Estelle GettyBooks should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John DenhamPractical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel SmilesHowever great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. [Thus speaks the great philosopher]
Wilhelm Von HumboldtThe pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman DouglasLearning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh BillingsIn wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Francis QuarlesWisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel SmilesConventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
Archibald MacLeishWisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J WatsonAnother possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.
Dave BarryScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Imannuel KantA short saying often contains much wisdom.
SophoclesThose who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes - cleverness, maybe - wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart.
Benjamin HoffMore helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George EliotDistrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich NietzscheThere is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham YoungThe increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness
David MoirScience is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur EddingtonWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceOne of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
GalbraithBesides the noble art of getting things done there is the art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin YutangIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way (A Tale of Two Cities)
Charles DickensWisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen EvansHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonTeach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter ScottIt is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma GandhiWisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug LarsonNot by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius PlautusNature never says one thing, Wisdom another
JuvenalThe wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew JacksonThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter J LippmannBooks are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
W B YeatsHas fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis QuarlesMistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis TherouxGrey hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath TagoreMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham GreeneEffective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
Chip BellHe whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
Quintus EnniusPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranMixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt BrechtWisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine
Horace GreeleyProportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure
Hannah MoreTo profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
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