Top 89 Wit Wisdom Quotes
#1. Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.
Carolyn Hart
#3. Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
Mary Astell
#4. Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and honest fondness one loves people.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#6. Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
W. Somerset Maugham
#8. And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, they seemed in perfect health.
Mike Birbiglia
#9. Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.
Larry Heinemann
#10. No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
#11. Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.
Danny Wallace
#13. It is a mere needless thing to fight with ignorance with all your true strength except you can educate and change ignorance with wit and wisdom
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#14. To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.
Samuel Johnson
#15. Yes, well, I'm not asking you to hide anything. Hiding won't help you. You can't very well hide from a pit, can you? You just need to avoid falling into it. - Brohan Madhrarigal
Gregory S. Close
#16. There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
Elizabeth I
#17. Nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
Ouida
#19. You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
Benjamin Franklin
#20. I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
John Lyly
#21. Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Sometimes being given the elbow can turn out to be the best hand.
Benny Bellamacina
#23. There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.
John Muir
#24. The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
William Cowper
#25. Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.
Benjamin Franklin
#26. Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.
Jean Ferris
#27. Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness ...
Robert E. Howard
#29. Man's wisdom detracts from the glory of God, who is more honoured by the simplicity of the gospel, than luxuriance of wit.
Stephen Charnock
#30. Now, Anansi stories, they have wit and trickery and wisdom. Now, all over the world, all of the people they aren't just thinking of hunting and being hunted anymore. Now they're starting to think their way out of problems
sometimes thinking their way into worse problems.
Neil Gaiman
#31. Warraner looked pleasantly surprised at the question, like a Mormon who had suddenly found himself invited into a house for coffee, cake, and a discussion of the wit and wisdom of Joseph Smith.
John Connolly
#32. Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
Criss Jami
#33. A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.
Mark Lawrence
#34. I wish for you the wisdom to mind your own business.
Steve Maraboli
#35. Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.
John Selden
#36. It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,
Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit,
That woman's love can win, or long inherit;
But what it is, hard is to say,
Harder to hit.
John Milton
#37. Season of Miracles is a triumphant story with a heart of gold. Laced with wit and wisdom, the story had me chuckling out loud one minute and wiping away tears the next. Highly recommended!
Deborah Raney
#38. As they have taught me, I believe that without asking, we are given all we need. We must have the wit and wisdom to recognize the strengths and tools at our command, and find the courage to do what must be done.
Dean Koontz
#39. Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.
Tessa Dare
#40. My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was known for his intelligence, wit, wisdom, a wonderful sense of humour, a great personality, and a genuine goodwill towards all.
Ajay Mehta
#41. George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, and insight that it makes Henry David Thoreau seem alien, humorless, and French.
John McPhee
#42. I shall always inspire many hearts in timeless moments.
Angelica Hopes
#43. Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom - or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form.
George W. Bush
#44. Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Jane Austen
#45. To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. Listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. When
Maya Angelou
#48. If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion
Benny Bellamacina
#49. Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#50. Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.
Moses Harvey
#52. If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.
Maureen Dowd
#53. Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.
George Horne
#54. Rudolph Walsh, you are my fierce advocate, and your wit and wisdom
Curtis Sittenfeld
#55. When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.
Frances Trollope
#56. Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
Mary Astell
#57. Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all bare-No wisdom won with weariness;But Love goes in with Folly's dress-No fame that wit could ever win;But only Love may lead Love in.
Henry Cuyler Bunner
#58. The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#59. Who values the past lives sentimentally.
Who optimizes the present grabs opportunity.
Who balances time creates harmony.
Who disturbs harmony leads complexity.
Who solves complexity opens continuity.
Angelica Hopes
#60. If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.
Christian Scriver
#61. they "come to the business of life & the application of knowledge they find that they are inferior - & all their studies have not given them that practical good sense & mother wisdom & wit which grew up with our grandmothers at the spinning wheel,
Megan Marshall
#62. The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length.
Jane Brereton
#63. Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
Tom Robbins
#64. Simple words can be given powerful meanings. Wit and wisdom are simple words that speak to truth.
Jim Boyd
#65. One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
Marcel Proust
#66. I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.
Louis L'Amour
#67. some call their mistake a discovery;to others, their mistake is a misfortune and to most people a mistake is a deviation from the acceptable. A mistake is a mistake depending on what we think it is.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#68. Everything's going to work out. 'Cause remember
you're the toughest fifteen-year-old on the planet, right?
Haruki Murakami
#69. If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.
Mark Twain
#70. A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#71. Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
Joseph Addison
#72. From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#73. I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
Henry David Thoreau
#74. Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.
Trent Zelazny
#75. I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard
#76. Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.
Dean Koontz
#77. The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.
Michael A. Stackpole
#78. Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.
Trent Zelazny
#79. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.
Aldous Huxley
#81. 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.
William Congreve
#83. As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.
Pythagoras
#84. An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
Evan Esar
#85. I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.
When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifying.
Janet Turpin Myers
#86. Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in the tradition of Joolz Denby and Pam Ayres and, like them, her work is beautifully layered and contains bittersweet depths.
Phill Jupitus
#87. An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.
L. Frank Baum
#88. He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
Bias Of Priene
#89. For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.
Thomas Reid
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