Top 100 But Wisdom Quotes
#1. But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.
Gregory David Roberts
#2. In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball
#3. It's often mistaken for good advice, but wisdom cannot be imparted to someone. Wisdom can only be earned; it's a by-product of experience, not necessarily knowledge, otherwise I would be stalking Oprah right now, begging for a transfusion.
Renee Carlino
#4. Confusion and suffering may be our birthright, but wisdom and happiness are available.
Sam Harris
#5. Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.
Debasish Mridha
#6. I'm not unintelligent, mind you. But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and in retrospect, I obviously lack many of those traits. Here's
Nicholas Sparks
#9. Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate
Patricia Hill Collins
#10. Knowledge is abundant but wisdom is rare.
Knowledge might be dangerous but wisdom is fair.
Debasish Mridha
#11. To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.
Criss Jami
#12. Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.
George Sarton
#13. Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
Martin Luther
#14. Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot.
Hermann Hesse
#15. Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer
#16. I was inflamed to love, and seek, and obtain, and hold, and embrace, not some sect, but wisdom itself-whatever it was.
Augustine Of Hippo
#17. Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.
Ismat Ahmed Shaikh
#18. Knowledge is potential power, but wisdom is the readily available power of the mind.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
Anne Bradstreet
#22. Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
#24. Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.
John Alexander Morrison
#25. Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.
Dan Brown
#26. Wisdom is not to be at the top of a giant pyramid and hence see everywhere clearly, but wisdom is to be at the top, at the bottom, to be inside the pyramid, it is to be everywhere!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
Seneca The Younger
#29. Dreams are reality for the subconscious mind, but wisdom is the perception of knowledge. Wisdom is the internalization of knowledge.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Knowledge comes from reading but wisdom comes from experience of living.
Debasish Mridha
#31. How would you like to live billions upon billions of lives?" Paul asked. "There's a fabric of legends for you! Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate. How
Frank Herbert
#32. Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate.
Frank Herbert
#34. Whatever you want you can get, when you understand the secret of will. But wisdom is needed so that you do not use your will abusively because you'll get hurt.
Frederick Lenz
#35. Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.
Ameen Rihani
#36. Foolishness pours out of an open mouth ...
but wisdom sneaks in through the ears ...
Gail Z. Martin
#37. Man needs now no more degrees, but character,
No more study, but wisdom.
Sivananda
#38. Knowledge is the beauty of a diamond, but wisdom is the shining reflection of that beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Wisdom can be found and held onto ... but wisdom can never be purchased. It is not for sale.
Doug Berry
#40. A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
William Cowper
#42. The quest for knowledge may be pursued at higher speeds with smarter tools today, but wisdom is found no more readily than it was three thousand years ago in the court of King Solomon.
Arianna Huffington
#43. The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
William Gilmore Simms
#44. But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and
Nicholas Sparks
#45. Wisdom is not the same as information; it's something entirely different. It's often mistaken for good advice, but wisdom cannot be imparted to someone. Wisdom can only be earned.
Renee Carlino
#47. The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
Edward Young
#48. Knowledge is acquired by diligent study. But wisdom is given by the revere of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.
Adam Gidwitz
#50. Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.
Hayden Carruth
#51. [Folly never thinks it has enough, even when it obtains what it desires, but Wisdom is happy with what is to hand and is never vexed with itself.]3
Michel De Montaigne
#52. Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.
Lawrence Weiner
#55. You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.
Louise Colet
#56. The bad news is that time is finite, but good news is that it's enough for a life.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.
Anne Gracie
#58. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.
Esther Dalseno
#59. He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.
Dejan Stojanovic
#60. the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#61. We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society.
Debasish Mridha
#62. A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us - not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.
Marva J. Dawn
#63. The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love.
Jennifer Edwards
#64. But slowly, it happened everywhere, in the West and in the East as well, that the journey to wisdom through suffering became a global art form.
Andrew Ramer
#65. keep following your heart.
it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.
AVA.
#66. Wisdom says we should try to make a relationship work not because we have strong feelings but because it's a good match.
Gary L. Thomas
#67. It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.
Ibn Ata Allah
#68. The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions.
Debasish Mridha
#69. 28.12 But where shall wisdom be found?....
John Gill
#70. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.
Rosen Topuzov
#71. Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
Aaron Cohen
#72. To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
Helen Keller
#73. A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
Baruch Spinoza
#74. Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.
Sergio De La Pava
#75. You cannot go back and start a brand new beginning, but today is a new day and you can start a brand new thing.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Biology without selfishness, is nothing but fiction.
Abhijit Naskar
#77. Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Love is a magnetic force, you can't see it, but it can pull you toward the beloved.
Debasish Mridha
#79. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#80. Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
Solon
#81. Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.
Dale E. Turner
#82. Easy to Understand, but profound wisdom for women seeking a deeper understanding of what happens to their bodies and minds as they reach the age of forty and beyond. A must read for every woman! -- Super Health Nation
Ivy Gilbert
#84. Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it.
Luis Marques
#85. Peace is a new father
Searching for a job
With courage and vigor
With a smile and rigor
But with a great need for money.
Debasish Mridha
#86. It isn't important who is going to hurt me, but its important who is going to love me.
Debasish Mridha
#87. So they put them to flight by Allah's permission. And Dawood slew Jalut, and Allah gave him kingdom and wisdom, and taught him of what He pleased. And were it not for Allah's repelling some men with others, the earth would certainly be in a state of disorder; but Allah is Gracious to the creatures.
Anonymous
#88. Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young.
Daphne Du Maurier
#89. Education is not an expense, but it is the capital ready to be invested.
The return depends on the wisdom you gained.
Debasish Mridha
#91. But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the mind that stirs between the wings / Of bees ...
George Eliot
#92. But the greatest wisdom could be blinded by the glare of vanity.
Paulo Coelho
#93. Samuel Chadwick said, "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray!" Prayer
Neal Pirolo
#94. No matter where you are, keep your life simple - that is all I am saying. Remember, a rich man is not the one who has the most, but one who desires the least.
Samina Ali
#95. Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.
Debasish Mridha
#96. Fish rule the waters,
but can be caught using worms.
Birds rule the air,
but can be caught using grain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#97. The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor.
Amartya Sen
#98. My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves me back in return. I may only have one life to live, but if I do it right, once is enough.
Diana Rose Morcilla
#99. Pray that, above all things, the gates of light may be opened to you; for these things cannot be perceived or understood by all, but only by the man to whom God and his Christ have imparted wisdom (Dial. 7, 3).
Pope Benedict XVI
#100. What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.
Greg Laurie
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