740 Quotes Regarding Wisdom


The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
W. Clement Stone

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann Hesse

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings