Quotes About Wisdom

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Night is the mother of counsels.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.