Quotes on wisdom
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Gandhi, Mohandas K.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Hubbard, Elbert
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Larson, Doug
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Sr., Oliver Wendell Holmes
The dentist said my wisdom teeth were retarded.
Author, Unknown
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Author, Unknown
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
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
Wilson, Bill
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Dickens, Charles
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
Sterne, Laurence
A person determined never to be wrong won't likely accomplish much.
Wisdom, Ken
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Cooper, Vernon
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Little, Mary Wilson
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
Carlyle, Thomas
The years teach much which the days never knew.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Wilson, Tom
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Lippmann, Walter
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Augustine, St.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Author, Unknown
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
Unknown, Author
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Author, Unknown
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Penn, William
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Shaw, George Bernard
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Author, Unknown
Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.
Einstein, Albert
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Asimov, Isaac
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Billings, Josh
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Fischer, Martin H.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Santayana, George
To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
Confucius
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.
47-8, Proverbs