Quotes About Wisdom

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?

I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe. I have all that I need.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world.

I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.