Quotes on Wisdom

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all the moral, intellectual, technological, and therapeutical achievements of the last centuries have been built.

Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.