Quotes about Wisdom

Enjoy these quotes about wisdom or that impart wisdom. It’s fun to compare wisdom through the ages. Are we wiser today than we were hundreds of years ago? You be the judge.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ~Wayne Dyer

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. ~Henry David Thoreau

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~Lin Yutang

College isn't the place to go for ideas. ~Helen Keller

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ~Anna Freud

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. ~Thomas Jefferson

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert Green Ingersoll

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ~Henry David Thoreau

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. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. ~Sam Levenson

Just as a squirrel checks the quality of a nut before burying it for later... so too should we examine any thought we pick up before putting it away in our mind. Learn this lesson and stop driving yourself nuts! ~Guy Finley

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. ~Theodore Rubin

Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant. ~Stephen Sigmund

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. ~Nikki Giovanni

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. ~Indira Gandhi

Statistics are only the results of how others are thinking. They are the calculated results of the way others are flowing energy. They have nothing to do with you. ~Abraham-Hicks

Success leaves clues. ~Jim Rohn

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. ~Pierre Abelard

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. ~Ann Landers

The next thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is. ~Mary Pettibone Poole

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. ~Mark Twain

The Wisdom and the strength to let go is not the outcome of preparation; it is born within us – moment to moment – as our willingness to learn the truth about ourselves meets the need to do the same. ~Guy Finley

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. ~Vernon Cooper

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ~Samuel Smiles

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. ~Stephen Vincent Benet

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it. ~David Starr Jordan

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. ~Sophocles

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. ~Plato