Wisdom 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.

» Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

» The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

» The doors of wisdom are never shut.

» To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

» There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

» 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.

» Wisdom begins at the end.

» Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

» Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

» Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

» Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

» A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

» Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

» We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

» All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

» A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

» The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

» He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

» The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

» Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

» Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

» Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

» In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

» No man was ever wise by chance.

» He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

» The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

» Turn your wounds into wisdom.

» Patience is the companion of wisdom.

» Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

» 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.

» Wisdom begins in wonder.

» The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

» Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

» Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

» Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

» Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

» Wisdom is a sacred communion.

» It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

» The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

» It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

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