Wisdom Quotes
140 quotations about Wisdom
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.