740 Quotes Regarding Wisdom


Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King Solomon

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
John Barrymore

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.
William Butler Yeats

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
Aleister Crowley

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake

The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats