Quotes about wisdom

"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."

Gandhi, Mahatma on wisdom
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"The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool."

Garbutt, Frank on wisdom
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"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children."

Gibran, Kahlil on wisdom
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"Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on wisdom   

"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on wisdom
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"Wisdom is found only in truth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on wisdom
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"Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end."

Goldsmith, Oliver on wisdom   

"Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray."

Goldsmith, Oliver on wisdom   

"The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man."

Handey, Jack on wisdom   

"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it."

Hesse, Hermann on wisdom
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"I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach."

Hesse, Hermann on wisdom   

"There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile."

Hoagland, Edward on wisdom   

"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

Hobbes, Thomas on wisdom   

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"The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us."

Hoffer, Eric on wisdom   

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on wisdom   

"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on wisdom   

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."

Horace on wisdom
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"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

James, William on wisdom
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"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."

James, William on wisdom
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"He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty."

Johnson, Samuel on wisdom   

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"Wisdom overcomes fortune."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on wisdom   

"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."

Kraus, Karl on wisdom   

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on wisdom   

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"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on wisdom   

"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on wisdom   

"It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on wisdom   

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

Larson, Doug on wisdom   

"Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain."

Lee, Robert E. on wisdom
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"It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss."

L'Estrange, Sir Roger on wisdom   

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite."

Levenson, Samuel on wisdom   

"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on wisdom
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"He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on wisdom   

"There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather."

Luther, Martin on wisdom   

"A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on wisdom   

"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."

Maeterlinck, Maurice on wisdom   

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy."

Marden, Orison Swett on wisdom   

"Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being."

Marden, Orison Swett on wisdom   

"By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well."

Marx, Eleanor on wisdom   

"No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight."

Mencken, H. L. on wisdom   

"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."

Mill, John Stuart on wisdom
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