740 Quotes Regarding Wisdom

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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Arthur Conan Doyle

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon

Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
Ron White

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli

No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca