WISDOM QUOTES IX

quotations about wisdom


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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, wisdom is the "Capacity of judging rightly in matters relating to life and conduct" and "sound judgement". My goodness, think if wisdom were a modern concept, regularly practiced, how much less shocking news we would have every day! If only celebrities didn't make such silly displays of themselves on late-night television shows; if tourists didn't insist on taking naked selfies on sacred mountains; if Justin Bieber could only behave like a sensible young man; if politicians were once again filled with serious integrity. Then our lives would not be spinning out of control with nonsense. What if Donald Trump had the wisdom to keep his mouth shut? What if scientists realize that just because they can create robot soldiers doesn't mean they should?

DOROTHY TURCOTTE
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"The world in 2016 could use a little more wisdom", Niagara This Week, January 12, 2016


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Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

Tags: Austin O'Malley


The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

Tags: Norman MacDonald


The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.

EDWARD YOUNG

The Complaint; Or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Tags: Edward Young


Learning discernment is a lifelong project, and wisdom is hard-won.

JEANIE MILEY

"Learning discernment is a lifelong project", San Angelo Standard-Times, January 29, 2016


It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

PLAUTUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Wisdom is the first and mother of all stocks for the market maker.

JIMANZE EGO-ALOWES

"Is the leadership question Nigeria's gold card?", The Sun, February 4, 2016


The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

JOHN GODFREY SAXE

"King Solomon and the Bees"

Tags: John Godfrey Saxe


Wisdom is not learning merely; it is learning with ability and disposition to use it.

E. P. DAY

Day's Collacon


Be wise before the storm.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

Love in the Time of Cholera

Tags: Gabriel Garcia Marquez


There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

JACQUELINE CAREY

Kushiel's Dart

Tags: Jacqueline Carey


Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man

Tags: Johann Kaspar Lavater


No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A Farewell to Arms

Tags: Ernest Hemingway


A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Line upon line, a little here and there,
We scrape together wisdom with slow care.
Wherefore? To blossom in a churchyard rose,
Or to go with the spirit--if it goes?

KARLE WILSON BAKER

"Wisdom", Blue Smoke

Tags: Karle Wilson Baker


Now, if wisdom is God, who made all things, as is attested by the divine authority and truth, then the philosopher is a lover of God.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

Tags: St. Augustine


Crime is the entertainment of the fool; so is wisdom for the man of sense.

BIBLE

Proverbs 10:23


Second thoughts are ever wiser.

EURIPIDES

Hippolytus

Tags: Euripides


The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.

TYCHO BRAHE

attributed, Day's Collacon