Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

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.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.