Quotes About Wisdom

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.  ~ Josh Billings


What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness.  ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau


The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.  ~ Socrates


Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.  ~ Hermann Hesse


Wisdom comes alone through suffering.  ~ Aeschylus


Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.  ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson


We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.  ~ George Bernard Shaw


Wisdom comes by disillusionment.  ~ George Santayana


Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.  ~ Phaedrus


A wise man hears one word and understands two.  ~ Jewish Proverb


Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.  ~ Elbert Hubbard


Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.  ~ Sandra Carey


Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from gettinginto situations where you need it.  ~ Doug Larson


The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.  ~ Oscar Wilde


Who is wise? One who learns from all.  ~ Rabbi Ben Zoma


It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.  ~ Albert Einstein


No man was ever wise by chance.  ~ Seneca


The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.  ~ Maya Angelou


Patience is the companion of wisdom.  ~ St. Augustine


Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.  ~ Niccolo Machiavelli


Better a drop of wisdom than an ocean of gold.  ~ Greek Proverb


A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.  ~ Francis Bacon


There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.  ~ Plato


Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.  ~ Sophocles


Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.  ~ Alexandre Dumas


Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.  ~ Socrates


To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.  ~ Minna Antrim


I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


Turn your wounds into wisdom.  ~ Oprah Winfrey


The years teach much which the days never knew.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.  ~ Norman Cousins


Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.  ~ William Wordsworth


There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.  ~ Charles Dickens


Wisdom outweighs any wealth.  ~ Sophocles