Wisdom Quotes: Pearls of Insight and Enlightenment (Page 4)

"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech"

"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care"

William Penn, Leader

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing"

Socrates, Philosopher

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us"

Socrates, Philosopher

"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean"

Socrates, Philosopher

"The wisdom of age: don't stop walking"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us"

George Eliot, Author

"In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause"

George Eliot, Author

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"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, Writer

"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"

Norman Douglas, Writer

"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying"

Norman Douglas, Writer

"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship"

Norman Douglas, Writer

"To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality"

Andrew Jackson, President

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone"

Horace, Poet

"Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him"

Buddha, Leader

"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue"

Buddha, Leader

"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children"

William Blake, Poet

"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"

William Blake, Poet

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook"

William James, Philosopher

"Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom"

Will Durant, Historian

"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God"

Aeschylus, Playwright