Wisdom Quotes

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.