Inspirational Quotes - Wisdom

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
Kahlil Gibran (Sand and Foam)

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
The Talmud

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis Hutcheson (Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue)

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning…and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evens

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
Robert Gary Lee

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
Sid Taylor

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles H. Spurgeon

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings

I not only use all the brains that I have but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

The ignorant work for their own profit; the wise work for the welfare of the world.
Bhagavad-Gita

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau

It's not good for all of our wishes to be fulfilled. Through sickness, we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Greek proverb

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
Tao Te Ching

Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.
John A. Morrison

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper ("Winter Walk at Noon" The Task)

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.
Richard E. Byrd

N ever mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey

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