Wisdom Quotes, Quotations, Sayings and Remarks



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  • Memory is the mother of all wisdom. Aeschylus
  • Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine
  • 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. Akhenaton
  • A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Francis Bacon
  • Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. Josh Billings
  • The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. Napoleon Bonaparte
  • In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. Lord Chesterfield
  • Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 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. Confucius
  • Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. Confucius
  • A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. Herb Caen
  • There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. Charles Dickens
  • The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli
  • Cleverness is not wisdom. Euripides
  • The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin
  • Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. Kahlil Gibran
  • Wisdom is found only in truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Horace
  • Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. Elbert Hubbard
  • Wisdom is a sacred communion. Victor Hugo
  • He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. James Huneker
  • The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. Dean Inge
  • It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. William Ralph Inge
  • The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James
  • Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
  • Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. David Starr Jordan
  • Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. Juvenal
  • Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. Doug Larson
  • Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. Doug Larson
  • It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Walter Lippmann
  • He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. Mary Wilson Little
  • Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. Theodore Roosevelt
  • To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
  • Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean Paul
  • No man was ever wise by chance. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw
  • The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates
  • Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates
  • Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles
  • Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles
  • Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. Tobias Smollett
  • 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. Sara Teasdale
  • Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. Henry David Thoreau
  • It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. Henry David Thoreau
  • Wisdom begins at the end. Daniel Webster
  • Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. Tom Wilson
  • Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah Winfrey

 

  

  

 

  

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