Wisdom quotes

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Mahatma Gandhi

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

Sir Francis Bacon

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkner

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Aristotle

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Horace

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Samuel Smiles

It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

J. R. R. Tolkien

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

St. Francis of Assisi

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Sir Francis Bacon

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

Saint Augustine

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

Elbert Hubbard

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Herman Melville

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Orison Sweet Marden