Wisdom Quotes - page 3

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. (Aristophanes)
A short saying oft contains much wisdom. View quote
Sophocles
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it. View quote
David Starr Jordan
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. (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. View quote
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
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. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
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. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? View quote
T. S. Eliot
The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure. View quote
William Blake
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. (H. L. Mencken)
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. View quote
Josh Billings
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom. View quote
Confucius
Wisdom begins in wonder. View quote
Socrates
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