The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin FranklinNever mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra CareyLessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Laurence SterneIt is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell HolmesHe who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William PennApothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
William R AlgerCleverness is not wisdom.
EuripidesGood people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure
William SaroyanWisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis HutchesonThe key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Peter AbelardUnion of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
Wallace StevensWisdom outweighs any wealth.
SophoclesThere is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham YoungWisdom is learning what to overlook.
William JamesAnger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
William DavenantSo confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas JeffersonWisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel SmilesKnowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William CowperMusic is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
Charlie ParkerPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranConventional 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 MacLeishConvictions 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 NietzscheThat which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai StevensonTeach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter ScottThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac DisraeliKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord TennysonThough sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord ByronSometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth GaskellHe is a man of great wisdom and knowledge. He is a man who serves the Lord.
We remember well a sermon at the pope's funeral in Rome. His words touched our hearts and the hearts of millions. We join with our fellow citizens and millions around the world who pray for continuous strength and wisdom. [on Pope Benedict XVI]
George BushThose who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes - cleverness, maybe - wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart.
Benjamin HoffWisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
Walt WhitmanSome of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dale TurnerWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenAll this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David ThoreauDemocracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom will prevail.
AnonymousDo you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body? The assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.
Donald CurtisWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceJust as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund FreudHas fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis QuarlesScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Imannuel KantHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonBesides 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 YutangFear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellOur own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry MillerMight I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me
MontaigneThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleLearning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh BillingsIt requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter J LippmannBooks of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.
Robert AndrewsWisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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