Wisdom Quotes

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

Ambrose Bierce
- Age
- Eyes
- Wisdom
The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

Joshua Lederberg
- Moral
- Politics
- Economy

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

Johann Georg Hamann
- Wisdom
- Grief
It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Friedrich Nietzsche
- People
- Why
- Knowledge
A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

Baden Powell
- Children
- Power
- Boy
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Socrates
- Breathe
- Have
- Insight
Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

Alan Alda
- People
- Time
- Long
I think once you've found the right person, you just know. I feel like I'm much older a soul than I am in age. I feel like I've lived enough life to know. I've met enough guys to know—I've met enough girls to know. I don't feel 22. I feel like 27, 28.

Sophie Turner
- People
- Know
- Find