Wisdom Quotes

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.

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.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

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.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.