All Quotes

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
‐‐ George Santayana

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
‐‐ Confucius

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
‐‐ Francis Hutcheson

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
‐‐ Tom Wilson

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
‐‐ Paul Ricoeur

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
‐‐ Josh Billings

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
‐‐ Sidney Hook

Wisdom is a sacred communion.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
‐‐ Phil Jackson

Wisdom is found only in truth.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
‐‐ Gerald Brenan

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
‐‐ David Starr Jordan

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
‐‐ Paul Engle

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
‐‐ Sara Teasdale

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
‐‐ Plautus

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
‐‐ Herman Hesse

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
‐‐ John Cheever

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
‐‐ Thomas J. Watson

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
‐‐ Doug Larson

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
‐‐ Doug Larson

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 a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
‐‐ Sophocles

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.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
‐‐ Francis Quarles

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
‐‐ Sophocles

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
‐‐ Richard Cecil

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
‐‐ Robert Dale Owen

Wisdom sails with wind and time.
‐‐ John Florio

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
‐‐ Felix Frankfurter

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
‐‐ John Cheever

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
‐‐ Florence Nightingale

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
‐‐ Edward Everett Hale

Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
‐‐ L. Lionel Kendrick

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
‐‐ Fernando Pessoa

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.
‐‐ Nikolai Gogol

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
‐‐ Edward Young

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
‐‐ Diogenes

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
‐‐ Diogenes