Wisdom Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Human beings have not been given anything higher than wisdom and intellect.
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Philosophy … bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
There are many branches of learning, but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom.
Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.
Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
Silence is one of the gates to wisdom.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.