Wisdom Quotes - page 2

Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit. (Elbert Hubbard)
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. View quote
Confucius
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. View quote
Sophocles
Turn your wounds into wisdom. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. View quote
Laozi
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. View quote
Aeschylus
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. View quote
Socrates
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. View quote
Aristotle
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. (Mahatma Gandhi)
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. View quote
Lin Yutang
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. View quote
Alexandre Dumas
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Patience is the companion of wisdom. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. View quote
Isaac Asimov
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. View quote
George Eliot
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
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. (Charles Spurgeon)
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. View quote
Walter Lippmann
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
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
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