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Inspirational Quotes about Wisdom
Akhenaton quotes
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. Rating:
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Saint Augustine quotes
Patience is the companion of wisdom. Rating:
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Francis Bacon quotes
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Rating:
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Josh Billings quotes
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. Rating:
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Herb Caen quotes
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. Rating:
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Lord Chesterfield quotes
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. Rating:
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Rating:
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Confucius quotes
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. Rating:
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Charles Dickens quotes
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. Rating:
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Benjamin Disraeli quotes
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Rating:
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Benjamin Franklin quotes
The doors of wisdom are never shut. Rating:
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Kahlil Gibran quotes
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. Rating:
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Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Rating:
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Elbert Hubbard quotes
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. Rating:
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Victor Hugo quotes
Wisdom is a sacred communion. Rating:
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James Huneker quotes
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. Rating:
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William Ralph Inge quotes
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. Rating:
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William James quotes
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. Rating:
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David Starr Jordan quotes
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. Rating:
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Juvenal quotes
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. Rating:
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Doug Larson quotes
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. Rating:
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Doug Larson quotes
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. Rating:
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Walter Lippmann quotes
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Rating:
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Mary Wilson Little quotes
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. Rating:
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H. L. Mencken quotes
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. Rating:
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Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Rating:
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Jean Paul quotes
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Rating:
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Theodore Roosevelt quotes
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. Rating:
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Bertrand Russell quotes
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Rating:
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes
No man was ever wise by chance. Rating:
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George Bernard Shaw quotes
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. Rating:
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Tobias Smollett quotes
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. Rating:
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Socrates quotes
Wisdom begins in wonder. Rating:
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Socrates quotes
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Rating:
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Sophocles quotes
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Rating:
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Sara Teasdale quotes
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. Rating:
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Alfred Lord Tennyson quotes
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Rating:
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Henry David Thoreau quotes
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. Rating:
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