Wisdom Quotes

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

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. - H.W. Beecher

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody. - Talleyrand

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found. - A.A. Hodge

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. - Sophocles

Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body. - Rochefoucauld

What is it to be wise? - 'Tis but to know how little can be known - to see all others' faults and feel our own. - Pope

No man can be wise on an empty stomach. - George Eliot

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. - Euripides

We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them. - Charron

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. - Cecil

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. - Boileau

He who thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. - Colton

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies. - Rochefoucauld

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. - Humphrey

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He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like the man who ploughs in his field but does not sow. - Saadi

The wisdom of one generation will be the folly of the next. - Priestley

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. - Lactantius

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

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying. - Jeremy Taylor

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. - Sir W. Temple

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou art a fool. - Rabbi Ben-Azai

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials. - Story

To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom. - Milton

We cannot advance without new experiments in living,but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. - James Truslow Adams

Keep the gold and keep the silver, but give us wisdom. - Arabian Proverb

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. - Francis Bacon

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by. - E.S. Bouton

As a solid rock is not shaken by a strong gale, so wise persons remain unaffected by praise or censure. - Buddha

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable. - Richard E. Byrd

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

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. - Thomas Carlyle

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. - Cato

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. - Lord Chesterfield

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. - Chinese Proverb

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant. - Winston Churchill

All wisdom may be reduced to two words - wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. - Will Durant

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more. - William Cowper

When we know how to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the hearts of others. - Denis Diderot

Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail. - Joseph Conrad

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel

Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new.  Very little of it has ever been used. - Benjamin F. Fairless

A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand. - Thomas Fuller

The fool wanders, the wise man travels. - Thomas Fuller

The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with facts is a fool. - Frank A. Garbutt

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself. - Kahlil Gibran

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. - Anatole France

No mistakes, no experience; no experience, no wisdom. - Stanley Goldstein

The intellect of the wise is like glass: It admits the light of heaven and reflects it. - Augustus Hare

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. - Robert A. Heinlein

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

He is great who can do what he wishes; he is wise who wishes to do what he can. - August Iffland

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. - Willian Ralph Inge

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself. - Plato

Wisdom thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten. -Pythagoras

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt

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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words. - Sophocles

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. - Herbert Spencer

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. - Dame Sybil Thorndike

Wisdom is the power that enables us to use knowledge for the benefit of ourselves and others. - Thomas J. Watson

Perhaps wisdom is to be found in people who have suffered greatly but have surmounted it. - Louis Jolyon West

 

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