I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
~By Hippolyte Taine ~
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
~By Mary Astell ~
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
~By Sophocles ~
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
~By Abbott L. Lowell ~
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
~By Lord John Russell ~
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
~By Robert Bridges ~
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
~By Hal Borland ~
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
~By Martin Henry Fischer ~
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
~By Roone Arledge ~
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
~By William Hazlitt ~
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
~By Norman Douglas ~
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
~By Josh Billings ~
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
~By David Brainerd ~
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
~By William Blake ~
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
~By Nick Clooney ~
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
~By William Temple ~
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
~By Barry White ~
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
~By Liz Carpenter ~
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
~By Wilfrid Sheed ~
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
~By Lucille Ball ~
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
~By James Hillman ~
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
~By Robert E. Lee ~
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
~By George Crabbe ~
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
~By Herman Melville ~
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.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
~By William Law ~
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
~By Zhuang Zi ~
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
~By Isaac D'Israeli ~
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"
~By Bill Bradley ~
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
~By James Huneker ~
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
~By Phyllis Theroux ~
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
~By Sophocles ~
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
~By John Keats ~
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
~By Merry Browne ~
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
~By Paul Engle ~
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
~By George Santayana ~
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
~By Thomas Shepard ~
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
~By Francis Bacon ~
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
~By William Samuel Johnson ~
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
~By Euripides ~
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
~By Elena Kagan ~
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
~By Abigail Adams ~
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
~By Walter Scott ~
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.
~By Greg Walden ~
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
~By Robert Kennedy ~
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
~By Aeschylus ~
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
~By John Selden ~
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
~By James Madison ~
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
~By Joseph Roux ~
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
~By Anatole France ~
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
~By Aristotle ~
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
~By Bob Woodward ~
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
~By Arnold Palmer ~
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
~By Elizabeth Gaskell ~
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
~By William Dean Howells ~
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
~By Socrates ~
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
~By William Cowper ~
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
~By Aeschylus ~
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
~By William Osler ~
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
~By Confucius ~
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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.
~By Herman Hesse ~
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