quotations about wisdom
Man thinks
Brutes have no wisdom, since they know not his:
Can we divine their world?
GEORGE ELIOT
The Spanish Gypsy
The wisest man is he who does not require advice.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Vicar of Wakefield
At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?
JONAS SALK
interview, Academy of Achievement, May 16, 1991
Wisdom's door is ever open.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.
ARISTOPHANES
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Regained
It's a beautiful thing, the blossoming of Wisdom. Like a flower in spring.
MICHAEL RUDD
Clothes for their Souls
The essence of Hikmah or wisdom is to place everything in its correct place, speech or action, as well as the conformance of knowledge with action.
AL-SAMARUA'I
"The deeper meaning of Subhan Allah", Islam21c, April 10, 2017
All wisdom consists in this, not to think that we know what we do not know.
HOUNG-WOU
attributed, Day's Collacon
Every person on earth has something to contribute, and that wisdom is a shared reality.
ELAD NEHORAI
The Wisdom Daily, January 18, 2016
One of the characteristics of a great leader is wisdom, and the best way to get wisdom is through experience. Normally that experience includes a few failures -- that's where battle scars and limps come from.
INGAR GREV
"Here's why companies don't want to hire people over the age of 40", Biz Journals, January 26, 2016
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
Theosophical Review