quotations about wisdom
Have you ever wondered exactly what wisdom is? Nowadays, most people don't think about it at all. It's a rather old-fashioned concept, yet one that we need in this modern age, probably more than ever.... After all, aren't our senators intended to be wise older people who have the good judgement to take a sober second look at legislation before it finally becomes law? Today's news makes us wonder how that concept has become lost in political hubris.
DOROTHY TURCOTTE
"The world in 2016 could use a little more wisdom", Niagara This Week, January 12, 2016
Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Vicar of Wakefield
When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.
XENOPHON
Cyropaedia
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Regained
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Wisdom's door is ever open.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The wisest man is he who does not require advice.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.
PLATO
Euthydemus
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
Theosophical Review
Every person on earth has something to contribute, and that wisdom is a shared reality.
ELAD NEHORAI
The Wisdom Daily, January 18, 2016
All wisdom consists in this, not to think that we know what we do not know.
HOUNG-WOU
attributed, Day's Collacon
It's a beautiful thing, the blossoming of Wisdom. Like a flower in spring.
MICHAEL RUDD
Clothes for their Souls