WISDOM QUOTES V

quotations about wisdom

Wisdom is a strange thing; you learn to fight for what you can achieve and give up on the things that are impossible.

RAY WILLIAMS

"Ray Williams reflects on 90 years", Goulburn Post, April 9, 2017


A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

GRENVILLE KLEISER

Dictionary of Proverbs


True wisdom is less presuming than folly; the wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

ROBERT DODSLEY

The Economy of Life


It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

MENANDER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Cunning is seeing a hundred yards ahead--wisdom, fifty miles in advance.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos

Tags: Charles William Day


In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps.

EDWARD YOUNG

The Centaur Not Fabulous


Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Locksley Hall

Tags: Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Justice without wisdom is impossible.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE

Short Studies on Great Subjects

Tags: James Anthony Froude


For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves, for they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance. But this proveth rather that men are in that point equal, than unequal. For there is not ordinarily a greater sign of the equal distribution of any thing than that every man is contented with his share.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan

Tags: Thomas Hobbes


When wisdom leaves the house folly enters it.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Knowledge is horizontal; it's the accumulation of facts. Wisdom is vertical; it sees life from God's perspective.

BOB RUSSELL

"Praying for political leaders", Church Central, January 26, 2016


Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

CHARLES DE LINT

"The Forest is Crying", The Ivory and the Horn

Tags: Charles de Lint


The man of wisdom is the man of years.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts

Tags: Edward Young


On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

EDWARD YOUNG

Love of Fame


In my experience, nothing has taught me more than the failures I've experienced--because they gave me wisdom to understand what to do differently next time.

DONALD CHESTNUT

"If 50 is the new 40, then what does that mean for 40?", Campaign Live, April 3, 2017


Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of discerning good from evil, what is to be chosen and what rejected; a judgment grounded upon the true value of things, and not the common opinion of them.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


He who understands the wise is wise already.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook E", Aphorisms

Tags: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.

THOMAS GRAY

Odes on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Tags: Thomas Gray


He that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.

ENNIUS

attributed, De Officii