Quotes
Quotes about Wisdom
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
The price of wisdom is eternal thought.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Kindness and wisdom is the pathway leading to GOD'S LOVE! -Clara.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley.
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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.
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. . -Sandra Carey.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Not 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!
The oldâlike childrenâtalk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
