Wisdom Quotes: Pearls of Insight and Enlightenment (Page 2)

"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

"I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things"

Tina Turner, Musician

"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"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

"Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"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

"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

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most"

Walter Pater, Critic

"God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them"

Mo Udall, Politician

"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more"

Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic

"Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation"

Sara Teasdale, Author

"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom"

Stephen Vincent Benet, Poet

"Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom"

Jeremy Collier, Clergyman

"And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also"

Thomas Reid, Philosopher

"After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork"

James Prescott Joule, Physicist

"There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source"

Brigham Young, Leader

"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth"

Peter Abelard, Philosopher

"God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom"

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Writer

"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way"

Sophocles, Author

"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink"

Sophocles, Author

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment"

Lao Tzu, Author

"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"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, Writer

"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The doors of wisdom are never shut"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Cleverness is not wisdom"

Euripides, Poet

"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise"

Euripides, Poet

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