Wisdom Quotes

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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 Nietzsche

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe (The Birds)
Aristophanes

Men 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 Chesterton

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
Estelle Getty

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John Denham

Practical 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 Smiles

However 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 Humboldt

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman Douglas

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings

In 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 Quarles

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel Smiles

Conventional 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 MacLeish

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J Watson

Another 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 Barry

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Imannuel Kant

A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

Those who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes - cleverness, maybe - wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart.
Benjamin Hoff

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot

Distrust 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 Nietzsche

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham Young

The 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 Moir

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur Eddington

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
Galbraith

Besides 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 Yutang

It 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 Dickens

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter Scott

It 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 Gandhi

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another
Juvenal

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter J Lippmann

Books 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 Yeats

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis Quarles

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis Theroux

Grey hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene

Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
Chip Bell

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
Quintus Ennius

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
Kahlil Gibran

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine
Horace Greeley

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure
Hannah More

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson Mizner



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