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