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wisdom

Quotes including the word “wisdom”.

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Isaac Asimov

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Brecht

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.

Anton Chekhov

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”

Arthur Clarke

Ιnformation is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Alexandre Dumas

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Thomas Eliot

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?

Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Heraclitus

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

Hobbes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Homer

In youth and beauty, wisdom is rare!

Horace

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

Isokratis

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Carl Jung

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Immanuel Kant

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

John Keats

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Mykola Lysenko

Bless us with freedom, bless us with wisdom, Guide into kind world,

Bob Marley

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Claude McKay

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...

Menander

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Montaigne

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Charlie Parker

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

Octavio Paz

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

Plutarch

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

Plutarch

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Marcel Proust

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Jacqueline Romilly

I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.

Rousseau

What wisdom can you find greater than kindness?

Jalaluddin Rumi

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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

Saadi

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Schopenhauer

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought.

Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Solon

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Sophocles

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Thales

Too Many words are not a proof of Wisdom.

Durant Will

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.