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

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

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

"The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason"

Hal Borland, Author

"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

"Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

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

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"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

"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

"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

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment"

Lao Tzu, Author

"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

"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

"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom"

Cicero, Philosopher

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom"

Cicero, Philosopher

"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom"

Plato, Philosopher

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