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Quotes About Wisdom

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.
~ Joshua Foer
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
~ William Temple
What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.
~ Garth Brooks
I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
~ John Lyly
Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
~ Iris Murdoch
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
~ Seneca the Younger
There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.
~ Simonides of Ceos
Wisdom comes to no one by chance.
~ Seneca the Younger
We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.
~ Nelson Mandela
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
~ Hugh Prather
What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.
~ Marcia Cross
Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.
~ Zig Ziglar
Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.
~ Vachel Lindsay
Wise men are not wise at all times.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.
~ Kim Alexis
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
~ Baltasar Gracian
I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.
~ Lewis Schiff
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
~ Sophocles
As one of us transforms we activate transformational energies in others, which enables them to more readily reconnect with the wisdom of their innate creative source.
~ Julia Hill
The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.
~ Confucius