WISDOM QUOTES III
quotations about wisdom
Wisdom is mostly the fruit of experience.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Great is the number of those who might attain true wisdom if they did not already think themselves wise.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
The Waste Books
The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.
TAD WILLIAMS
Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Harijan, February 17, 1940
The extreme limit of wisdom -- that's what the public calls madness.
JEAN COCTEAU
Le Coq et l'Arlequin
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.
HOSEA BALLOU
Edge-Tools of Speech
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
A simple realization that there are other points of view is the beginning of wisdom.
GRENVILLE KLEISER
Dictionary of Proverbs
Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
ZEN PROVERB
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
SRI AUROBINDO
Thoughts and Aphorisms
If we drink from the fountain of wisdom,
We thirst for its waters e'ermore.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
Thoughts
Wisdom is the perception of the unimportance of the things we call great, and of the importance of the things we call small.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke
The road to true wisdom has seldom been spanned by mortals.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.
JOHN FLETCHER
attributed, Words of Wisdom
How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver!
BIBLE
Proverbs 16:16
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Whosoever would be wise, and consequently happy, must raze out of his mind all those false mistaken notions that have been imprinting there from his infancy; and endeavour to expel that pernicious infection of error, which it has been so long hatching from erroneous customs and examples, and, which will prove fatal to it, if too long neglected.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Man's highest blessedness,
In wisdom chiefly stands;
And in the things that touch upon the Gods,
'Tis best in word or deed
To shun unholy pride;
Great words of boasting bring great punishments,
And so to grey-haired age
Teach wisdom at the last.
SOPHOCLES
Antigone