Wisdom Quotes - page 2
If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.
Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom.
Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom
Or poets with holy magic.
Hey-di-ho.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
It seems the part of wisdom.
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
"Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness..."