Wisdom Quotes: Pearls of Insight and Enlightenment

"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"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, Philosopher

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Silence does not always mark wisdom"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom"

Euripides, Poet

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

"The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy"

William Penn, Leader

"The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best"

John Tillotson, Theologian

"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another"

Juvenal, Poet

"A short saying often contains much wisdom"

Sophocles, Author

"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness"

Sophocles, Author

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom"

Confucius, Philosopher

"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Wisdom begins in wonder"

Socrates, Philosopher

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth"

Barry White, Musician

"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart"

William Dean Howells, Author

"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it"

Mary Astell, Writer

"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom"

Anatole France, Novelist

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