Wisdom Quotes

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.