Wisdom Quotes - random
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.
Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.
A sweet content
Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
Mystery: Time and Tide shall pass,
I am the Wisdom Looking-Glass.
Receiving education nurtures human wisdom.
There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
A fence to wisdom is silence.
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
To attain knowledge, add things every day.
To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
The extreme limit of wisdom — that’s what the public calls madness.
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.