Wisdom Quotes - page 2

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. (Walter Lippmann)
The doors of wisdom are never shut. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. View quote
William Blake
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Wisdom is the daughter of experience. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. View quote
Immanuel Kant
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. View quote
Aristophanes
A short saying oft contains much wisdom. View quote
Sophocles
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it. (David Starr Jordan)
To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. View quote
Graham Greene
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. View quote
Norman Cousins
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. View quote
Robert Frost
To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. (Hermann Hesse)
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. View quote
Hippolyte Taine
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. View quote
John Cheever
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. View quote
Bertrand Russell
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. View quote
James A. Garfield
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