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Wisdom Quotes

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

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

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Plato

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Plato

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

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
Rush Limbaugh

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson Mizner

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