Top 100 Wisdom Is Quotes
#4. 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
#5. Wisdom is born of the foolish things one does for love.
Marty Rubin
#6. Wisdom is not guaranteed with age but is realized through one's sensitivity to humanity and the universe
I. Alan Appt
#7. I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
Henri Frederic Amiel
#8. In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.
Wayne Muller
#9. It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?
Aristotle.
#11. Knowledge is an exercise of your brain. Wisdom is the commitment of your heart that leads to transformation of your life.
Paul David Tripp
#12. The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.
Pam Brown
#13. Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
Criss Jami
#14. Real wisdom is the ability to understand the incredible extent to which you bullshit yourself every single moment of every day.
Brad Warner
#16. Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Alfred North Whitehead
#17. Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.
George Horne
#18. To know is to memorize.
To understand is to utilize.
The accumulation of knowledge is learnedness.
The accumulation of wisdom is experience.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#19. Knowledge is never in doubt. Wisdom is never certain.
Dee Hock
#21. One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#22. The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
Anna Quindlen
#24. Understanding is important for studying,
knowledge is important for teaching,
and wisdom is important for living.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#26. History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
Rick Perlstein
#27. You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested;
If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.
Cormega
#28. No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.
Charles A. Reich
#29. We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly.
Sandor Marai
#30. The wisdom is your glory. By wisdom you will be fair to yourself and fair to others.
Nirmala Srivastava
#32. Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
Socrates
#33. We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
Marcel Proust
#34. The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.
Mason Cooley
#35. Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
Hesiod
#36. Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.
B. J. Palmer
#37. Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.
Elizabeth George
#38. Wisdom is knowing when you don't know
Socrates
#40. Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.
Raheel Farooq
#41. Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Wisdom is the science of happiness.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#43. Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.
Hannah Arendt
#45. Knowledge is great; wisdom is even better.
Jay Allison
#46. The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.
Deepak Chopra
#47. Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
Sara Teasdale
#48. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice.
Sam Harris
#49. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.
Sophocles
#50. Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance.
William Rotsler
#51. Wisdom is the winner over good luck.
Juvenal
#52. Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
Heraclitus
#53. Wisdom is like the moonlight that quietly inspires you.
Debasish Mridha
#54. It is vital to remember that information
in the sense of raw data
is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.
Arthur C. Clarke
#55. Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?
Andrew Hargadon
#57. He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
Benjamin Whichcote
#58. Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
Hermann Hesse
#60. My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.
Gotze Dijkstra
#61. The mark of wisdom is to see the reality behind each appearance.
Corban Addison
#62. Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom
but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.
Helen Rowland
#63. He who (tries to) govern a state by his wisdom is a scourge to it; while he who does not (try to) do so is a blessing.
Lao-Tzu
#64. The key to wisdom is this
constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Pierre Abelard
#65. Knowledge without wisdom is like a beautiful lady without morals
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#67. What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Henry Ward Beecher
#69. Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
Henry Fielding
#70. Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.
Frederick Lenz
#71. Wisdom is indispensable in the fulfillment of purpose.
Osiri Wisdom
#73. Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the misers of learning.
Henry Miller
#74. Wisdom is not acquired by reading. Wisdom is what results when you incorporate this knowledge into your personal experience.
Jim Lawless
#75. Wisdom is seeing that there are templates in the universe that you can follow. They will show you what to do and what not to do. In order to see them you have to make your mind very quiet, very still.
Frederick Lenz
#77. when knowledge is available, belief is unnecessary. There is no religious belief expressed because wisdom is superior
Amanda Valiant
#78. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows not more.
William Cowper
#79. Wisdom is referred to as "she" - or even as "Lady Wisdom" - because the Greek word for wisdom is feminine);
Bart D. Ehrman
#80. Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.
Frederick Lenz
#81. Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.
Jim Berg
#82. The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing.
Ramesh S Balsekar
#83. Wisdom is in measured routine. Three naps a day will keep you fit, nine breakfasts before noon, spin until you fall on your back, and thrust your face into a nettle plant. Drink at least five cups of a mare's urine and look upon your self in a silver mirror while you hold your air in your chest.
Benjamin Franklin
#85. There is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#86. The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
Ian McKellen
#88. Wisdom is like the rain.
It's supply is unlimited, but it comes down according to what the occasion requires -
in winter and spring, in summer and autumn,
always in due measure, more or less,
but the source of that rain is the oceans itself, which has no limits.
Rumi
#89. Befriend knowledge;
ignorance is your enemy.
Wisdom is strength;
ignorance is weakness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#90. Ws 6:1 Wisdom is better than strength: and a wise man is better than a strong man.
Various
#91. The masses are always wrong - Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
Charles Bukowski
#92. The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Edward Young
#93. Wisdom is experience and dedication.
P. Hermans
Petra Hermans
#95. Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.
Lois Lowry
#97. Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
C.S. Lewis
#98. Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same time, to be in the realms of light, to be in samadhi.
Frederick Lenz
#99. Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#100. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
