Wisdom Quotes
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
Socrates
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In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.
Anthony Hope
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Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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All social movements would gain immensely in enthusiasm, persuasiveness, and wisdom if the hearts of their advocates were cleansed and warmed by religious faith.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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It seems the collective wisdom of the community came up with a sensible compromise. I think this is probably the best we can expect.
Kevin Moore
Chroma Key
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We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
Dora Russell
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Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
John Paul Jones
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac
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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
Plato
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A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.
Baden Powell
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There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann Hesse
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If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
Stephen Gardiner
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Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at the end of that trial or affliction that individual is nearer to God, nearer in regard to the increase of faith, wisdom, knowledge and power, and hence is more confident in calling upon the Lord for those things he desires.
Lorenzo Snow
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The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
Flann O'Brien
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He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow
Saadi
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
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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
