wisdom
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
24 thoughts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
103 sayings 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 other quotes from Jean Giraudoux
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
3 quotes 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Desiderius Erasmus
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
13 thoughts from e. e. cummings
Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.
6 quotes from William Temple
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
11 quotes from Graham Greene
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
36 more quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
15 thoughts from William Penn
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
4 sayings from Aleister Crowley
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
24 quotes 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 other views 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 quotes from William O. Douglas
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
4 quotes from Shinichi Suzuki
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
2 more wisdom & wit from Paul Engle
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
29 thoughts from Friedrich Schiller
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
7 other quotes from Louis D. Brandeis
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
52 more views from George Eliot
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
12 other sayings from William Cowper
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
22 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Laurence Sterne
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
52 more wisdom & wit from George Eliot
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
20 views from George S. Patton
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
25 sayings from Will Durant
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
14 thoughts from Laurence Sterne
The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
32 quotes from William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
32 more quotes from William Blake
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
6 other wisdom & wit from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
12 wisdom & wit from William Cowper
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
29 other 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 quotes 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 other quotes from Abigail Adams
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
12 wisdom & wit from William Cowper
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
2 quotes from Richard Cecil
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
6 views from Felix Frankfurter
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
4 thoughts from Clarence Day
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
2 quotes from Ezra Stiles
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
46 sayings from George Santayana
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
10 quotes from Og Mandino
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
2 other wisdom & wit from Gabriel Marcel
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
4 wisdom & wit from Evelyn Underhill
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
3 other quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Henry Miller
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
2 more quotes from Ezra Stiles
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
46 quotes from George Santayana
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
6 more quotes from Norman Douglas
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
6 wisdom & wit from Norman Douglas
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
5 more quotes from Jose Bergamin
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
6 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Morihei Ueshiba
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
46 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 sayings from Khalil Gibran
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
4 more 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 views from Moliere
All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.
4 other quotes from Alexandre Dumas
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
24 wisdom & wit from Carl Sandburg
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
9 wisdom & wit from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
2 other quotes from John Denham
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
30 views from Charles Caleb Colton
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
3 quotes from John Webster
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
6 other quotes from Franz Grillparzer
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
2 other sayings from Johannes Tauler
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.
6 other quotes from Zhuangzi
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
2 wisdom & wit from James Huneker
Honesty is the best policy.
96 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
7 views from Homer
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
6 quotes from Roger Ascham
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
67 quotes 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 thoughts from Khalil Gibran
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
19 quotes 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 thoughts from Edmund Burke
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
30 quotes 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 other thoughts from Joey Adams
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
11 other wisdom & wit from Epicurus
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
19 quotes from Anton Chekhov
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
41 thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
17 more quotes from Plutarch
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
67 more 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 more quotes from Lord Byron
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
40 sayings from William James
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
3 other quotes from Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
96 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 quotes from Lactantius
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
3 thoughts from Constantin Stanislavski
The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
14 other quotes from William Arthur Ward
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
16 other quotes 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 virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
75 quotes from Aristotle
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
11 other quotes from Robert E. Lee
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
3 thoughts from Thomas Dekker
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
36 quotes from Lord Byron
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
4 more sayings 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 other 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 quotes from Saadi
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
2 quotes from Lactantius
Wisdom begins at the end.
12 quotes 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 thoughts from Khalil Gibran
Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it.
2 quotes from David Starr Jordan
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
25 other quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
40 quotes from William James
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
3 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Francis Bacon
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
26 wisdom & wit from Charles Dickens
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
6 thoughts 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 thoughts from John Barrymore
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
5 views from Omar N. Bradley
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
3 views from Sidney Lanier
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
29 other wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
13 more 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 quotes from John Steinbeck
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
5 thoughts from Richard Whately
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
19 other sayings from Alfred North Whitehead
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
16 thoughts from Havelock Ellis
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
14 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 other thoughts from Sacha Guitry
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
32 more sayings from Michel de Montaigne
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
24 quotes from Ayn Rand
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
26 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Michel de Montaigne
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
73 sayings from Victor Hugo
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
6 thoughts from Thomas J. Watson
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
50 more views from Robert Frost
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
17 more quotes from Leo Buscaglia
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
18 thoughts from Jean Paul
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
4 quotes from Torquato Tasso
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
18 more thoughts from Jean Paul
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
9 more thoughts 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 other thoughts from Tom Wilson
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
5 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from John Muir
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
3 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 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 quotes 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 quotes 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 quotes from Pietro Aretino
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
20 views from Anatole France
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
7 more quotes from Abraham Maslow
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
13 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 views from Thomas Hobbes
Kindness is wisdom.
6 wisdom & wit from Philip James Bailey
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
42 more sayings from Josh Billings
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
13 more 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 more quotes from William Hazlitt
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
17 wisdom & wit from John Burroughs
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
42 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Joseph Barber Lightfoot
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
38 views from William Hazlitt
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
2 other thoughts from Dora Russell
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
42 more quotes 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 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
3 thoughts 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 more sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
135 thoughts 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 views from Bertrand Russell
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
135 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 thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit from Rabindranath Tagore
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
6 thoughts from Francis Quarles
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
14 other wisdom & wit from Arthur Conan Doyle
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
9 sayings from Margaret Fuller
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
3 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 wisdom & wit from Wilson Mizner
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
135 other thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
53 other quotes from Honore de Balzac
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
3 other views 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 other quotes from Alexander Pope
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
45 sayings from Bertrand Russell
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
10 other sayings 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 thoughts 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 thoughts from John F. Kennedy
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
7 thoughts from Thomas Moore
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
135 quotes 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 thoughts from John Cheever
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
6 sayings from Francis Quarles
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
9 thoughts 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 views from Henry Ward Beecher
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
28 thoughts 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 views 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 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 thoughts from Vince Lombardi
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
16 other sayings from Vince Lombardi
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
15 more quotes from Norman Cousins
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
2 quotes 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 other sayings from George Bernard Shaw
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
7 views 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 views from Henry David Thoreau
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
117 other sayings from Henry David Thoreau
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
32 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 quotes from John D. Rockefeller
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
7 more quotes from Walter Benjamin
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
14 more quotes from Edward Young
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
24 more views 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 other sayings from William Osler
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.
14 other wisdom & wit from Edward Young
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
6 more quotes 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 thoughts from Marcel Proust
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
2 views from Stephen Vincent Benet
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
6 other sayings from Arthur Helps
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
2 quotes 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 more quotes 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 other views from Theodore Dreiser
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
10 quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
15 views from Walter Scott
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
50 more quotes 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 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 quotes from Sara Teasdale
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
20 quotes from Herbert Hoover
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
2 other sayings from Francis Hutcheson
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
6 views from Sara Teasdale
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
20 more wisdom & wit from Herbert Hoover
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
60 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 quotes 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 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
8 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 quotes from Jeremy Collier
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
15 views from Cyril Connolly
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
63 thoughts from Samuel Johnson
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
90 quotes 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 quotes 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 other thoughts from H. L. Mencken