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.
ConfuciusHe whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
Quintus EnniusConvictions 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 NietzscheKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao TzuThe pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman DouglasThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovWisdom is learning what to overlook.
William JamesWisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel SmilesMistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis TherouxNot by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius PlautusLove is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel JohnsonMen who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock EllisAnimals, 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 AddisonKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord TennysonWisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Francis QuarlesSometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth GaskellTo profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson MiznerBooks should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John DenhamThough sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord ByronMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham GreeneMusic is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
Charlie ParkerWisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late
Felix FrankfurterWisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen EvansThe 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 MoirOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
EpicurusWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenWisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop, then when we soar.
William WordsworthWisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine
Horace GreeleyDistrust 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 NietzscheTell me what you find better, or more honourable than age. Is not wisdom entailed upon it? Take the pre-eminence of it in everything; and in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree
Shackerley MarmionThe 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 AbelardIt 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 DickensNine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore RooseveltAnd I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable BedeIt 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 GandhiMight I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me
MontaigneEffective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
Chip BellNot till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
Golda MeirDo 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 CurtisPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranIt is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says 'there is no wisdom without leisure.'
W B YeatsAs I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
Jane ByrneThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleMuch wisdom often goes with fewest words.
SophoclesWho knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan PatonJust 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 FreudWisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis HutchesonDemocracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom will prevail.
AnonymousLearning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh BillingsConventional 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.
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