Quotes about Wisdom, page 5

Experience the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about wisdom

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about wisdom

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about wisdom

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Quote by Paul Engle about wisdom

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Quote by Thomas J. Watson about wisdom

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about wisdom

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

Quote by William Faulkner about wisdom

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about wisdom

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about wisdom

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about wisdom

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli about wisdom

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Quote by Sidonie - Gabrielle Colette about wisdom

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Quote by Dorothy Parker about wisdom

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about wisdom

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Quote by Graham Greene about wisdom

The wise are above books.

Quote by Samuel Daniel about wisdom

A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other.

Quote by Stephen Crane about wisdom

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Quote by William Cowper about wisdom

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Quote by William Cowper about wisdom

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.

Quote by Osho about wisdom