Quotes About Wisdom

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

I've always believed with age comes wisdom. And I find salt and pepper hair to be very attractive.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.

Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.