Wisdom Quotes

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The beginning of our destruction started the day we began destroying ancient wisdom. - Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife


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


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


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, The Philosophy of Despair


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


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


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, Satires


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


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


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 single conversation with a wise man during the eating of a meal, is better than ten years' mere study of books. - Chinese Proverb  [Quoted in Justus Doolittle, A Vocabulary and Hand-Book of the Chinese Language, Romanized in the Mandarin Dialect, "Metaphorical and Proverbial Sentences," 1872. —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]


Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. - Norman Cousins


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 digested experience... - Janesville Daily Gazette (Janesville, Wisconsin), 1917 March 29th


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, "The Winter Walk at Noon"


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, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911





Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. - East African Proverb


The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It


One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. - Edward C. Steadman


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


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, MotherLove: Re-Inventing a Good and Blessed Future for Our Children, "Spiritual Nourishment," 1999
[I cannot believe this isn't quoted anywhere else online, it is so beautiful. If you want a piece of your heart to be tattooed forever by a few words, I suggest getting yourself a copy of this book and reading the dedication / opening poem before the Preface. I can't quote it because it is three amazingly poetic pages that cannot be broken up, but I wept. I wept, in such a joyous and terrible way, and if you are a woman or a mother or have ever known pain in your life, I think you might too. —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]


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


Age is the price of wisdom. - Proverb


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





The prince who would know all, must ignore much. - Domitius Afer, translated from Latin


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


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, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. - Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)


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


No man was ever wise by chance. - Seneca


Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid. - Terri Guillemets


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