740 Quotes Regarding Wisdom


The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
Aeschylus

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.
Paul Ryan

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Friedrich Schiller

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
Eric Clapton

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
Hugh Jackman

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Friedrich Schiller

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
George Byron

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Paton

People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
Anna Quindlen

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Jimmy Carter

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman Douglas

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Michael Caine