Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Wisdom
Quotations & Citations:
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
~Maurice Switzer (or Abraham Lincoln)
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
~Elbert Hubbard
We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
~Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom begins at the end.
~Daniel Webster
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
~William Shakespeare
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~St. Augustine
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
~Doug Larson
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
~David Star Jordan
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
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
~Tom Wilson
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
~Mark Twain
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
~Bill Veeck
The years teach much which the days never knew.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
~Aristotle
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
~Isaac Asimov
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
~Juvenal
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
~Author Unknown
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
~John Buchan
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
~Socrates
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
~A.A. Hodge
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
~Author Unknown
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
~Chinese Proverb
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
~Norman Cousins
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
~Isaac Asimov
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
~James Gibbons Huneker
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
~George Santayana
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
~Doug Larson
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
~Tobias Smollett
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
~William Wordsworth
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Knowledge is proud that he has learn’d so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.~William Cowper
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
~Sophocles
If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.
~Lemuel K. Washburn
The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.
~Robert Brault
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
~East African Proverb
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
~John Lennon
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
~William Shakespeare
One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.
~Edward C. Steadman
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
~William James
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
~François VI de la Rochefoucault
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
~Bertolt Brecht
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle
Mothers, teach your children this. Teach your children that Wisdom is everywhere. In pieces. Some of the Wisdom is in the trees, some of the Wisdom is with the animals. Some of the Wisdom is with the planets and the stars and the moons and the sun. Some of the Wisdom flows with the waters. Some of the Wisdom was with our ancestors. Some of the Wisdom is in our minds. All of the Wisdom is from the Spirit of God.
~Esther Davis-Thompson
Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
~Zen Proverb
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
~François VI de la Rochefoucault
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
~Josh Billings
There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.
~Robert Brault
When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.
~Mehmet Murat ildan
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
~Paulo Coelho
The child, offered the mother’s breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom’s copious breasts
You’ll drink each day with greater zest.~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every wise man lives in an observatory.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
~Martin H. Fischer
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
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
~Oprah Winfrey
No man was ever wise by chance.
~Seneca
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~George Bernard Shaw