Wisdom Quotes - page 7

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. (Paul Ricœur)
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. View quote
Carl Sandburg
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. View quote
Wallace Stegner
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. View quote
William Saroyan
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. View quote
William Penn
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. View quote
Lucille Ball
That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. View quote
Wilson Mizner
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better. (Kay Redfield Jamison)
Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. View quote
Herb Caen
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. View quote
William Cowper
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn. View quote
Larry Niven
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Remember, the wisdom of God may appear as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. View quote
Will Durant
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Bertrand Russell)
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. View quote
Herbert Hoover
A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life. View quote
Baruch Spinoza