Wisdom Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Wisdom is
the booby prize
given when you've been
unwise.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Bookes give no wisdom where none was before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Mystery: Time and Tide shall pass,
I am the Wisdom Looking-Glass.
The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.
Way over yonder is a place I have seen
In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
We don't have worms at the Palace of Wisdom.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
Human beings have not been given anything higher than wisdom and intellect.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.