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Quotations About Wisdom

Related: Intelligence, Wise Words, Knowledge

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939


Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Star Jordan
The Philosophy of Despair


Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
Satires


Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966


The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988


If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.
Lemuel K. Washburn
Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911


Every wise man lives in an observatory.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
As You Like It


Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
Gerry Adams
"Gerry Adams Talks About His Efforts for Peace," on Charlie Rose. 1994


He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
George Herbert


Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
East African Proverb


He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Mary Howitt


It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
William Shakespeare


Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins


Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Unknown


The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Unknown


Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Cicero


Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson


Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually attend you and hear your wisdom!
1 Kings 10:8


The years teach much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny


The water which supports a boat can also sink it.
Unknown


A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.
Unknown


A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.
Jeremy Taylor


A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
Chinese Proverb


Adapt yourself to changing circumstances.
Chinese proverb


Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare


Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill


I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates


The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.
Unknown