quotations about wisdom
Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.
ARISTOPHANES
attributed, Day's Collacon
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
One of the characteristics of a great leader is wisdom, and the best way to get wisdom is through experience. Normally that experience includes a few failures -- that's where battle scars and limps come from.
INGAR GREV
"Here's why companies don't want to hire people over the age of 40", Biz Journals, January 26, 2016
Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Vicar of Wakefield
When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.
XENOPHON
Cyropaedia
Wisdom's door is ever open.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The wisest man is he who does not require advice.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Regained
Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.
PLATO
Euthydemus
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
Theosophical Review
Every person on earth has something to contribute, and that wisdom is a shared reality.
ELAD NEHORAI
The Wisdom Daily, January 18, 2016
All wisdom consists in this, not to think that we know what we do not know.
HOUNG-WOU
attributed, Day's Collacon
It's a beautiful thing, the blossoming of Wisdom. Like a flower in spring.
MICHAEL RUDD
Clothes for their Souls