Wisdom Quotes

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.

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.