Top 457 Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Never find fault with the absent.

Never find fault with the absent.

Alexander Pope

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Alex Grey

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Aeschylus

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Abraham Cahan

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Aesop

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Mary Wilson Little

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

Orson F. Whitney

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Omar N. Bradley

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