We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
~By Tom Brown, Jr. ~
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Theodore Isaac Rubin ~
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
~By George Arliss ~
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
~By John A. Simone, Sr. ~
Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
~By Merry Browne ~
It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
~By James Hillman ~
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
~By Alex Grey ~
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
~By James Prescott Joule ~
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
~By Bell Hooks ~
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
~By Clifford Stoll ~
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Wisdom is found only in truth.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
~By Pierre Charron ~
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
~By William Congreve ~
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
~By Aeschylus ~
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
~By William Cowper ~
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
~By Joseph Addison ~
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
~By Pietro Aretino ~
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
~By David Starr Jordan ~
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
~By Euripides ~
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
~By George MacDonald ~
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
~By Plato ~
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 ~
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
~By Venerable Bede ~
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
~By Josh Billings ~
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
~By Francis of Assisi ~
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 ~
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 ~
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
~By Jean Bodin ~
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
~By Plutarch ~
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
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 ~
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 ~
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.
~By Kenichi Fukui ~
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
~By Karl Kraus ~
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
~By Lucille Ball ~
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
~By Peter Abelard ~
I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
~By Peter Hammill ~
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
~By Lactantius ~
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
~By Sidney Hook ~
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
~By Nick Clooney ~
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 ~
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
~By Arthur Helps ~
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
~By George Eliot ~
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
~By Joseph Story ~
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
~By George William Curtis ~
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
~By Gene Oliver ~
Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
~By William Eardley IV ~
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
~By James Buchanan ~
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
~By George Combe ~
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
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 ~
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
~By Quintus Ennius ~
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
~By Phil Jackson ~
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 ~
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
~By Jane Porter ~
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
~By Octavio Paz ~
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
~By Konstantin Stanislavisky ~
Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
~By Larry Merchant ~
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
~By Robert Duvall ~
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