The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
- Peter Abelard
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
- Joseph Addison
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
- Mortimer Adler
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
- Akhenaton
The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop "seeking".
- Paulo Coelho
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
- Paul Engle
Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words,'Wait and hope.' Chapter 117
- Alexandre Dumas
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
- Alexandre Dumas
Live and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day comes when God will deign to reveal the future of man, all human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope! (509).
- Alexandre Dumas
All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!
- Alexandre Dumas
19
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
(translated by Brooks Haxton)
- Heraclitus
To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.
- Heraclitus
But the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing; he is not speaking of Socrates, he is only using my name by way of illustration, as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
- Plato
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
Woman is made of fragile glass;
but do not put her to the test
to see if she will break,
for that might come to pass.
She is too apt to shatter,
and wisdom is surely ended
if what can ne'er be mended
is put in the way of danger.
What I say to you is true,
and let us all agree :
wherever Danae may be,
showers of gold are there, too.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
- John Avlon
A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
- Lucille Ball
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
- Maria Bartiromo
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment
- Peter S Beagle
We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.
- John Steinbeck
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
- Walter Benjamin
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- Josh Billings
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.
Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.
See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.
- Carl Sandburg
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
- Anne Bradstreet
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
- Gerald Brenan
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
- Phil Jackson
Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.
- Dan Brown
Wisdom is in books,... quote by me Halina Lagarde. Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.
- Dan Brown
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.
- Frederick Buechner
Wisdom is found only in truth.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- William Ralph Inge
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not the result of education, but a life long attempt to achieve it.
- Albert Einstein
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
- William James
Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.
- William James
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
- Bill Cosby
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
- John Cheever
The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
- Deepak Chopra
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
- Arthur Rimbaud
Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
- Arthur C Clarke
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
- Hunter S Thompson
One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent... Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.
- Hunter S Thompson
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
- Terry Pratchett
Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.
- Terry Pratchett
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
- Robert A Heinlein
True wisdom is knowing what you don't know
- Confucius
The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
- Confucius
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
- Confucius
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
- William Cowper
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
- William Cowper
All our wisdom is stored in the trees.
- Santosh Kalwar
The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of usit just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.
- Lama Surya Das
The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I don't know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.
- Keith R A Decandido
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
- Edward Young
Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.
- Emily Dickinson
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
- Norman Douglas
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- Michel De Montaigne
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
- Horace
Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the misers of learning.
- Henry Miller
Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.
- Bob Marley
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
- George Eliot
The heart of wisdom is tolerance.
- Steven Erikson
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
- William Faulkner
God's wisdom, true wisdom, is essential to living the life we were designed to live. Apart from God and his wisdom, we can spend a lot of time and energy getting lost, or worse, asking for directions from people who only pretend to know the way.
- Margaret Feinberg
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
- Victor Hugo
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
- William Temple
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
- Sara Teasdale
We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder
- Pope Gregory I
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
- Franz Grillparzer
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
- Hesiod
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
- Herman Hesse
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.
- Bill Hicks
It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
- James Hillman
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
- Homer
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
- Sidney Hook
Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.
- Barry Hughart
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
- Criss Jami
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
- Criss Jami
Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
- Kay Redfield Jamison
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
- David Starr Jordan
Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on
- Joyce Meyer
There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.
- C G Jung
Wisdom is gained like grain for bread, I think as I butter my toast. I'd better butter both sides, just in case I drop it it's sure to land butter side up. Ah, but that's life, no?
- Jarod Kintz
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant
The road to wisdom is paved with excess.
The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
- Walt Whitman
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
- Karl Kraus
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
- Lactantius
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
- Doug Larson
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
- Doug Larson
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
- Steven D Levitt
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
- Georg C Lichtenberg
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
- Georg C Lichtenberg
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Charles Spurgeon
let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. Let us give thanks to Him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. Let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.
- Amin Maalouf
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
- Gregory Maguire
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
He who (tries to) govern a state by his wisdom is a scourge to it; while he who does not (try to) do so is a blessing.
- Lao Tzu
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
- Orison Swett Marden
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.
- David O Mckay
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
- Sam Mendes
Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash"
Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge
- Dan Millman
Art without wisdom is trash.
- Kambiz Mostofizadeh
Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.
And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.
Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.
- Vera Nazarian
As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.
- Willie Nelson
Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.
- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Knowledge is power, wisdom is power with a purpose.
- Solitaire Parke
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
- Iain Pears
The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.
- John Piper
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
- Plautus
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
- Ezra Pound
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy of coating conformity.
- Anna Quindlen
Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.
- Brian Rathbone
Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.
- Rachel Naomi Remen
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything.
I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.
- Amy Tan
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a whilejust once in a whilethere was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!
- J D Salinger
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
- George Santayana
Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
- Joseph Smith Jr
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
- Sophocles
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.
- Oswald Spengler
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
- John A Simone Sr
Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why.
- William Stafford
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
- Constantin Stanislavski
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
- Charles Stanley
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
- Mary Stewart
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
- Tina Turner
Blue Horse said to me... wisdom is not a path, it is a tree.
- Nancy E Turner
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd
Vanity makes beauty contemptible
Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
- Abraham Verghese
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
- Thomas Watson Jr
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use
- Thomas Watson
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Conventional Wisdom is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today.
- Orrin Woodward
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
- William Wordsworth
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.
- Frank Zappa
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
- Zhuang Zi
'Lady Wisdom' is my wife and those I reach with Truth understood are my children.
- R Alan Woods
- Peter Abelard
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
- Joseph Addison
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
- Mortimer Adler
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
- Akhenaton
The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop "seeking".
- Paulo Coelho
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
- Paul Engle
Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words,'Wait and hope.' Chapter 117
- Alexandre Dumas
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
- Alexandre Dumas
Live and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day comes when God will deign to reveal the future of man, all human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope! (509).
- Alexandre Dumas
All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!
- Alexandre Dumas
19
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
(translated by Brooks Haxton)
- Heraclitus
To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.
- Heraclitus
But the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing; he is not speaking of Socrates, he is only using my name by way of illustration, as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
- Plato
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
Woman is made of fragile glass;
but do not put her to the test
to see if she will break,
for that might come to pass.
She is too apt to shatter,
and wisdom is surely ended
if what can ne'er be mended
is put in the way of danger.
What I say to you is true,
and let us all agree :
wherever Danae may be,
showers of gold are there, too.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
- John Avlon
A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
- Lucille Ball
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
- Maria Bartiromo
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment
- Peter S Beagle
We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.
- John Steinbeck
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
- Walter Benjamin
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- Josh Billings
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.
Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.
See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.
- Carl Sandburg
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
- Anne Bradstreet
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
- Gerald Brenan
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
- Phil Jackson
Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.
- Dan Brown
Wisdom is in books,... quote by me Halina Lagarde. Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.
- Dan Brown
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.
- Frederick Buechner
Wisdom is found only in truth.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- William Ralph Inge
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not the result of education, but a life long attempt to achieve it.
- Albert Einstein
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
- William James
Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.
- William James
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
- Bill Cosby
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
- John Cheever
The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
- Deepak Chopra
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
- Arthur Rimbaud
Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
- Arthur C Clarke
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
- Hunter S Thompson
One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent... Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.
- Hunter S Thompson
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
- Terry Pratchett
Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.
- Terry Pratchett
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
- Robert A Heinlein
True wisdom is knowing what you don't know
- Confucius
The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
- Confucius
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
- Confucius
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
- William Cowper
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
- William Cowper
All our wisdom is stored in the trees.
- Santosh Kalwar
The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of usit just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.
- Lama Surya Das
The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I don't know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.
- Keith R A Decandido
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
- Edward Young
Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.
- Emily Dickinson
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
- Norman Douglas
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- Michel De Montaigne
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
- Horace
Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the misers of learning.
- Henry Miller
Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.
- Bob Marley
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
- George Eliot
The heart of wisdom is tolerance.
- Steven Erikson
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
- William Faulkner
God's wisdom, true wisdom, is essential to living the life we were designed to live. Apart from God and his wisdom, we can spend a lot of time and energy getting lost, or worse, asking for directions from people who only pretend to know the way.
- Margaret Feinberg
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
- Victor Hugo
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
- William Temple
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
- Sara Teasdale
We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder
- Pope Gregory I
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
- Franz Grillparzer
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
- Hesiod
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
- Herman Hesse
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.
- Bill Hicks
It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
- James Hillman
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
- Homer
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
- Sidney Hook
Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.
- Barry Hughart
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
- Criss Jami
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
- Criss Jami
Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
- Kay Redfield Jamison
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
- David Starr Jordan
Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on
- Joyce Meyer
There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.
- C G Jung
Wisdom is gained like grain for bread, I think as I butter my toast. I'd better butter both sides, just in case I drop it it's sure to land butter side up. Ah, but that's life, no?
- Jarod Kintz
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant
The road to wisdom is paved with excess.
The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
- Walt Whitman
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
- Karl Kraus
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
- Lactantius
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
- Doug Larson
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
- Doug Larson
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
- Steven D Levitt
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
- Georg C Lichtenberg
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
- Georg C Lichtenberg
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Charles Spurgeon
let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. Let us give thanks to Him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. Let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.
- Amin Maalouf
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
- Gregory Maguire
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
He who (tries to) govern a state by his wisdom is a scourge to it; while he who does not (try to) do so is a blessing.
- Lao Tzu
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
- Orison Swett Marden
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.
- David O Mckay
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
- Sam Mendes
Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash"
Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge
- Dan Millman
Art without wisdom is trash.
- Kambiz Mostofizadeh
Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.
And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.
Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.
- Vera Nazarian
As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.
- Willie Nelson
Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.
- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Knowledge is power, wisdom is power with a purpose.
- Solitaire Parke
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
- Iain Pears
The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.
- John Piper
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
- Plautus
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
- Ezra Pound
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy of coating conformity.
- Anna Quindlen
Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.
- Brian Rathbone
Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.
- Rachel Naomi Remen
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything.
I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.
- Amy Tan
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a whilejust once in a whilethere was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!
- J D Salinger
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
- George Santayana
Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
- Joseph Smith Jr
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
- Sophocles
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.
- Oswald Spengler
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
- John A Simone Sr
Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why.
- William Stafford
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
- Constantin Stanislavski
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
- Charles Stanley
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
- Mary Stewart
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
- Tina Turner
Blue Horse said to me... wisdom is not a path, it is a tree.
- Nancy E Turner
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd
Vanity makes beauty contemptible
Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
- Abraham Verghese
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
- Thomas Watson Jr
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use
- Thomas Watson
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Conventional Wisdom is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today.
- Orrin Woodward
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
- William Wordsworth
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.
- Frank Zappa
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
- Zhuang Zi
'Lady Wisdom' is my wife and those I reach with Truth understood are my children.
- R Alan Woods
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