Quotes About Wisdom

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Wisdom

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It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

~Maurice Switzer (or Abraham Lincoln)

 

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

~Elbert Hubbard

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

 

We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.

~Michel de Montaigne

 

Wisdom begins at the end.

~Daniel Webster

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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

~William Shakespeare

 

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

 

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

~St. Augustine

 

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

~Doug Larson

 

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

~David Star Jordan

 

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

~Mary Wilson Little

 

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

~Tom Wilson

 

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

 

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

~Mark Twain

 

How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

~Bill Veeck

 

The years teach much which the days never knew.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange — my youth.

~Sara Teasdale

 

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

 

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

~Aristotle

 

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

~Isaac Asimov

 

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

~Juvenal

 

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

~Author Unknown

 

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now

 

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

~John Buchan

 

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

~Socrates

 

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

~A.A. Hodge

 

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.

~Author Unknown

 

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

 

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

~Chinese Proverb

 

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

~Norman Cousins

 

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

~Isaac Asimov

 

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when youd have preferred to talk

 

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

~James Gibbons Huneker

 

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

~George Santayana

 

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

~Doug Larson

 

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

~Tobias Smollett

 

Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it

 

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

~William Wordsworth

 

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

 

Knowledge is proud that he has learn’d so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

~William Cowper

 

There is a wisdom of the head and there is a wisdom of the heart

 

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

~Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

~Sophocles

 

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.

~Lemuel K. Washburn

 

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

~Robert Brault

 

Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens

 

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

~East African Proverb

 

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

~John Lennon

 

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

~William Shakespeare

 

One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.

~Edward C. Steadman

 

Raise your words, not voice.  It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder

 

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

~William James

 

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

~François VI de la Rochefoucault

 

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

~Bertolt Brecht

 

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

~Aristotle

 

Mothers, teach your children this. Teach your children that Wisdom is everywhere. In pieces. Some of the Wisdom is in the trees, some of the Wisdom is with the animals. Some of the Wisdom is with the planets and the stars and the moons and the sun. Some of the Wisdom flows with the waters. Some of the Wisdom was with our ancestors. Some of the Wisdom is in our minds. All of the Wisdom is from the Spirit of God.

~Esther Davis-Thompson

 

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom

 

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

~Zen Proverb

 

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

~François VI de la Rochefoucault

 

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

~Josh Billings

 

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

~Robert Brault

 

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

~Mehmet Murat ildan

 

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

 

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

~Paulo Coelho

 

The child, offered the mother’s breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom’s copious breasts
You’ll drink each day with greater zest.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

 

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

~Martin H. Fischer

 

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own

 

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

~Herb Caen

 

There is a wisdom of the head, and… a wisdom of the heart.

~Charles Dickens

 

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

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

A clever person solves a problem.  A wise person avoids it.

 

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

~Oprah Winfrey

 

No man was ever wise by chance.

~Seneca

 

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

~George Bernard Shaw