Wisdom Quotes

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

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

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Kindness is wisdom.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.