740 Quotes Regarding Wisdom

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
Arthur Conan Doyle

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers