A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
2 other sayings from Ezra Stiles
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
46 other quotes from George Santayana
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
10 more thoughts from Og Mandino
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
2 wisdom & wit from Gabriel Marcel
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
4 thoughts from Evelyn Underhill
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
58 other thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
3 more views from Charles Simmons
No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
2 more thoughts from John Selden
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
23 quotes from Henry Miller
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
2 quotes from Ezra Stiles
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
46 thoughts from George Santayana
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
6 views from Norman Douglas
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
6 more views from Norman Douglas
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
75 other wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
5 wisdom & wit from Jose Bergamin
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
6 more thoughts from Norman Douglas
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
4 quotes from Morihei Ueshiba
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
46 more quotes from George Santayana
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
3 quotes from Sidney Hook
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
56 more quotes from Khalil Gibran
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
4 other quotes from Richard Le Gallienne
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
15 quotes from Moliere
All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.
4 sayings from Alexandre Dumas
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
24 quotes from Carl Sandburg
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
9 thoughts from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
2 quotes from John Denham
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
30 thoughts from Charles Caleb Colton
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
3 thoughts from John Webster
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
6 other views from Franz Grillparzer
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
2 other quotes from Johannes Tauler
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
2 other quotes from James Huneker
Honesty is the best policy.
96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
6 thoughts from Roger Ascham
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
67 more wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
19 views from Anton Chekhov
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
6 quotes from Edith Wharton
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
37 quotes from Edmund Burke
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
30 thoughts from Charles Caleb Colton
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
12 views from Ludwig van Beethoven
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
7 views from Joey Adams
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
56 other quotes from Khalil Gibran
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
19 sayings from Anton Chekhov
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
41 other wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
17 quotes from Plutarch
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
36 quotes from Lord Byron
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
40 quotes from William James
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
3 views from Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
96 more sayings from Benjamin Franklin
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
96 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.
2 wisdom & wit from Lactantius
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
13 wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
3 views from Constantin Stanislavski
The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
14 sayings from William Arthur Ward
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
16 wisdom & wit from Isaac Asimov
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
56 views from Khalil Gibran
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
11 quotes from Robert E. Lee
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
3 wisdom & wit from Thomas Dekker
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
36 sayings from Lord Byron
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
4 views from Minna Antrim
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
17 wisdom & wit from Plutarch
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
4 other sayings from Saadi
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
2 wisdom & wit from Lactantius
Wisdom begins at the end.
12 wisdom & wit from Daniel Webster
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
56 more views from Khalil Gibran
Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it.
2 wisdom & wit from David Starr Jordan
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
40 sayings from William James
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
3 more quotes from John Florio
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
56 views from Khalil Gibran
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
67 more thoughts from Francis Bacon
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
26 quotes from Charles Dickens
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
6 other wisdom & wit from George William Curtis
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
12 quotes from John Barrymore
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
5 other quotes from Omar N. Bradley
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
3 quotes from Sidney Lanier
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
13 quotes from Ansel Adams
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
9 more sayings from John Steinbeck
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
5 other quotes from Richard Whately
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
19 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
16 quotes from Havelock Ellis
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
14 more wisdom & wit from Bertolt Brecht
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
2 quotes from Wallace Stegner
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
5 views from Sacha Guitry
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
24 views from Ayn Rand
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
26 other quotes from Charles Dickens
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
3 views from Sidney Lanier
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
32 views from Michel de Montaigne
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
33 views from Erma Bombeck
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
73 views from Victor Hugo
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
6 views from Thomas J. Watson
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
50 more sayings from Robert Frost
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
17 thoughts from Leo Buscaglia
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
105 more quotes from Albert Einstein
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
18 quotes from Jean Paul
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
105 sayings from Albert Einstein
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
4 views from Torquato Tasso
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
18 quotes from Jean Paul
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
9 quotes from Andrew Jackson
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
3 wisdom & wit from William Dean Howells
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
5 quotes from Tom Wilson
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
5 thoughts from Octavio Paz
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
2 thoughts from Herb Caen
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
13 other quotes from John Muir
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
3 more thoughts from Thomas Reid
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
8 quotes from Karl Kraus
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
70 other thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
42 thoughts from Josh Billings
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
70 views from Thomas Jefferson
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
2 more wisdom & wit from Pietro Aretino
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
20 more quotes from Anatole France
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
7 views from Abraham Maslow
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
13 other sayings from John Muir
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
20 views from Anatole France
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
8 wisdom & wit from Thomas Hobbes
Kindness is wisdom.
6 thoughts from Philip James Bailey
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
42 quotes from Josh Billings
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
13 other views from Immanuel Kant
The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
38 other quotes from William Hazlitt
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
17 other wisdom & wit from John Burroughs
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
42 other quotes from Josh Billings
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
7 views from Joseph Barber Lightfoot
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
38 thoughts from William Hazlitt
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
2 more quotes from Dora Russell
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
42 other thoughts from Josh Billings
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
70 other sayings from Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
3 sayings from Gerald Brenan
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
21 wisdom & wit from William Wordsworth
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
45 other thoughts from Bertrand Russell
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
45 more quotes from Bertrand Russell
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
6 views from Francis Quarles
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
14 quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
9 other wisdom & wit from Margaret Fuller
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
3 other wisdom & wit from Alfred Austin
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
10 other thoughts from Wilson Mizner
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
46 sayings from John F. Kennedy
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
3 quotes from Isaac D'Israeli
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
3 thoughts from Julia Ward Howe
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
43 quotes from Alexander Pope
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
10 wisdom & wit from Wilson Mizner
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
4 other quotes from Robert Hall
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
14 quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
7 quotes from Thomas Moore
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
53 wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
9 other views from John Cheever
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
6 quotes from Francis Quarles
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
9 quotes from John Cheever
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
59 views from Elbert Hubbard
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
28 quotes from William Butler Yeats
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
10 quotes from William Ralph Inge
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
15 more quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
5 more quotes from Brigham Young
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
16 more views from Vince Lombardi
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
15 quotes from Norman Cousins
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
2 wisdom & wit from Shmuel Y. Agnon
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
7 wisdom & wit from Walter Benjamin
Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
32 other quotes from Henry Ford
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
10 more sayings from John D. Rockefeller
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
7 thoughts from Walter Benjamin
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
14 quotes from Edward Young
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
24 more quotes from Jean Cocteau
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
11 more quotes from William Osler
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.
14 wisdom & wit from Edward Young
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
6 more sayings from Arthur Helps
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
18 other quotes from Marcel Proust
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
2 quotes from Stephen Vincent Benet
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
6 wisdom & wit from Arthur Helps
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
2 sayings from Johann Georg Hamann
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
4 quotes from Ben Hogan
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
11 thoughts from Lucille Ball
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
11 quotes from Lucille Ball
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
3 quotes from Theodore Dreiser
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
10 other quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
15 thoughts from Walter Scott
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
13 more quotes from Herman Melville
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.
6 thoughts from Sara Teasdale
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
20 wisdom & wit from Herbert Hoover
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
2 more views from Francis Hutcheson
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
6 thoughts from Sara Teasdale
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
20 other quotes from Herbert Hoover
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
60 more quotes from H. L. Mencken
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
90 other thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
8 other quotes from Walter Lippmann
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
2 quotes from Elizabeth Kenny
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
4 other quotes from Jeremy Collier
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
15 quotes from Cyril Connolly
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
60 more sayings from H. L. Mencken
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
63 more quotes from Samuel Johnson
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
90 thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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?
23 sayings from T. S. Eliot
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
60 views from H. L. Mencken
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
7 quotes from Jean Giraudoux
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
3 thoughts from Evelyn Waugh
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
15 more views from William Penn
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.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
15 other quotes from Desiderius Erasmus
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
13 views from e. e. cummings
Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.
6 more quotes from William Temple
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
11 other quotes from Graham Greene
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
36 wisdom & wit from Theodore Roosevelt
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
15 quotes from William Penn
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
4 other wisdom & wit from Aleister Crowley
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
24 more thoughts from Adlai E. Stevenson
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.
4 views from William Samuel Johnson
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
6 other sayings from William O. Douglas
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
4 sayings from Shinichi Suzuki
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
2 quotes from Paul Engle
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
29 more sayings from Friedrich Schiller
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
7 more wisdom & wit from Louis D. Brandeis
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
52 more quotes from George Eliot
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
12 quotes from William Cowper
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
14 quotes from Laurence Sterne
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
52 thoughts from George Eliot
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
20 thoughts from George S. Patton
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
25 wisdom & wit from Will Durant
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
14 other quotes from Laurence Sterne
The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
32 wisdom & wit from William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
32 sayings from William Blake
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
6 thoughts from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
12 thoughts from William Cowper
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
29 views from Friedrich Schiller
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
7 more views from Mary Astell
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
5 quotes from Abigail Adams
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
12 views from William Cowper
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
2 more wisdom & wit from Richard Cecil
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
6 sayings from Felix Frankfurter
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
4 other quotes from Clarence Day