Wisdom Quotes - page 3
There is a wisdom of the Head, and ... there is a wisdom of the Heart.
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
Wisdom is something I would never expect from Freud. Cleverness, certainly; but not wisdom.
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
God in his wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
The extreme limit of wisdom — that’s what the public calls madness.
Philosophy … bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
There are many branches of learning, but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom.
Thought the fool is to be pitied, still he is spared watching spurious wisdom turn to ashes in his head.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.
Wisdom and good governance require more than the consistent application of abstract principles.