Wisdom Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
It is Wit to pick a Lock, and steal a Horse ; but it is Wisdom to let it alone.
Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Opposition of one's desires is the sign of the highest level of wisdom in a human being.
Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
A man's wisdom is measured by his hope.
The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.
Way over yonder is a place I have seen
In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
Increase of experiences, increases the wisdom of mankind.
It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
[A proverb is] one man's wit, and all men's wisdom.
Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.