Wisdom Quotes: Pearls of Insight and Enlightenment (Page 5)

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner"

"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

"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

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

Walter Scott, Novelist

"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom"

Anatole France, Novelist

"Patience is the companion of wisdom"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words"

Robert South, Clergyman

"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom"

John Barrymore, Actor

"The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes"

Mary Astell, Writer

"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next"

Herbert Hoover, President

"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom"

Menander, Poet

"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but 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 forth faith rather than reason"

Hal Borland, Author

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom"

Jimmy Carter, President

"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability"

Plautus, Playwright

"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom"

George Byron, Poet

"The beginning of wisdom is to desire it"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"The Word of God is the fountain of wisdom, which He has given to all who desire to drink from it"

Clement of Alexandra, Theologian

"Fame and wealth are fleeting and empty; wisdom and virtue endure forever"

Cleobulus, Poet

"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two"

Octavio Paz, Poet

"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"Strength and wisdom are not opposing values"

William J. Clinton, President

"No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

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