Wisdom Quotes - page 4

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. (Margaret Fuller)
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. View quote
Edith Wharton
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. View quote
E. E. Cummings
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself. View quote
Galileo Galilei
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. View quote
Harry Dean Stanton
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. View quote
James Huneker
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. View quote
Muhammad Ali
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference. View quote
Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. View quote
Anatole France
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance. (Helen Rowland)
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. View quote
Sam Walton
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. View quote
Lord Byron