quotations about wisdom
'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
ALFRED TENNYSON
"In Memoriam A. H. H."
Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Vicar of Wakefield
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
A whetstone is no carving instrument,
And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool;
And if you see my efforts wrongly spent,
Eschew that course and learn out of my school;
For thus the wise may profit by the fool,
And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary,
For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Troilus and Cressida
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
It's a beautiful thing, the blossoming of Wisdom. Like a flower in spring.
MICHAEL RUDD
Clothes for their Souls
Man thinks
Brutes have no wisdom, since they know not his:
Can we divine their world?
GEORGE ELIOT
The Spanish Gypsy
The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Regained
The essence of Hikmah or wisdom is to place everything in its correct place, speech or action, as well as the conformance of knowledge with action.
AL-SAMARUA'I
"The deeper meaning of Subhan Allah", Islam21c, April 10, 2017
Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.
ARISTOPHANES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Every person on earth has something to contribute, and that wisdom is a shared reality.
ELAD NEHORAI
The Wisdom Daily, January 18, 2016
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
All wisdom consists in this, not to think that we know what we do not know.
HOUNG-WOU
attributed, Day's Collacon
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
Theosophical Review