Quotes
Quotes about Wisdom
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.
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.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifthâteaching others.
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.
Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: Humility is endless.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge: fitter to bruise than polish.
The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. . -Lin Yutang.
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of power and wisdom. Merry Browne -Marjorie Holmes.
