740 Quotes Regarding Wisdom


Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin Henry Fischer

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.
John Bigelow

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
Nina Totenberg

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
Stanford Moore

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis Hutcheson

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
Lord John Russell

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield

The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship.
Chinese Proverb

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
Anacharsis

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Euripides

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
The Talmud

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Jeremy Taylor

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale

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