Quotes About Wisdom

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.

Your creativity comes from the universal source of all creation, the source of all intelligence and wisdom.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.

Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.