Wisdom Quotes - page 8

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals. (Brigitte Bardot)
But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. View quote
Solomon
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. View quote
Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. View quote
Francis Bacon
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. View quote
Francis Bacon
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Wisdom cometh by suffering. View quote
Aeschylus
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl. View quote
William Blake
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. (William Blake)
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. View quote
Plutarch
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. View quote
Plutarch
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. View quote
Epicurus
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. View quote
Rumi
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. View quote
William Wordsworth
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. View quote
Confucius
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. (Confucius)
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. View quote
Terry Pratchett
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. View quote
Joseph Smith
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. View quote
Anna Quindlen
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. View quote
Kahlil Gibran