quotations about wisdom
Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
PLATO
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Charmides
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
All wisdom ends in paradox.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
The Virgin Suicides
He that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1746
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
The wise men were all fools, what to do?
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Last to Die", Magic
Wisdom is the lost property of the believer.
MUHAMMAD
Muhammad: The Last Prophet
A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA
Taiko
Many things imperfect by nature are made perfect by wisdom.
NICCOLO UZZANO
attributed, Day's Collacon
The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.
SOPHOCLES
attributed, Day's Collacon
We disgrace wisdom when we would strive to support it with folly.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Beware of a leader who doesn't have scars or walk with a limp. 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", The Business Journals, January 26, 2016
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Emile
Nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Cunning", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Better to be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
AESOP
"Juno and the Peacock", Aesop's Fables
The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Proverbs of Hell
Wisdom is inconceivable apart from something about which it can be called into operation.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity