Wisdom Quotes:

  • One's first step in wisdom is to question everything and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
    --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  • By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
    --Confucius
  • The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
    --Lin Yutang
  • Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
    --George Arliss
  • Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands, a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.
    --Sidney Lovett
  • The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
    --Michel de Montaigne
  • A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
    --Isaac Asimov
  • Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
    --Thomas Jefferson
  • The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
    --J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
  • We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
  • Logic is the beginning of wisdom; not the end.
    --Spock Star Trek VI Final Frontier
  • Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it.
    --Albert Einstein
  • To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
    --Samuel Johnson
  • It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it, and appropriately act on it.
    --Stephen R. Covey First Things First
  • Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
    --Unknown
  • We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
    --Stephen Vincent Benet
  • To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is; and despise affectation.
    --Horace Walpole
  • The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that our knowledge has increased so much faster than our wisdom
    --Frank Whitmore
  • Truth never plays false roles of any kind, which is why people are so surprised when meeting it. Everyone must decide whether he wants the uncompromising truth or a counterfeit version of truth. Real wisdom consists of recommending the truth to yourself at every opportunity.
    --Vernon Howard
  • Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
    --Anne Bradstreet, poet Dede Aday MacDonald
  • A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.
    --Admiral Richard E. Byrd
  • All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
    --Alexander Dumas
  • I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
    --Heywood Broun American journalist (1888-1939).
  • Information isn't wisdom. Information isn't learning. If information were learning, you could be educated by memorizing the world almanac. If you did that, you wouldn't be educated. You'd be weird
    --David McCullough author/historian, in INC. magazine, May 2000
  • The highest of wisdom is continual cheerfulness: such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.
    --Michel de Montaigne