Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Wisdom 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.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

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.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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.

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we
understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

Wisdom begins at the end.

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

The wise speak only of what they know.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.

Knowledge is not wisdom, unless used wisely.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man.

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.