Wisdom Quotes - page 5

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. (Charles Dickens)
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Wisdom is found only in truth. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. View quote
Walter Benjamin
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. View quote
Marcel Proust
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. View quote
Sophocles
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. View quote
Walter Scott
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. View quote
William Feather
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Wisdom begins in wonder. View quote
Socrates
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. View quote
Robert Bridges
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. View quote
Albert Einstein
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. (Bodhidharma)
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others. View quote
John Woolman
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best Ends by the best Means. View quote
Francis Hutcheson
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. View quote
Charlie Parker
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. View quote
Bill Clinton