quotations about wisdom
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES
Principles of Psychology
Wisdom is a power that allows one to stay on the fountainhead. Fountainhead signifies the origin of water. God is the origin of the living water.
JOSHUA CHOON-MIN KANG
"Return to the Word Repeatedly", Christianity Daily, January 26, 2016
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
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
preface, The Snow-Image
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
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass.
TERENCE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Knowing how to make a banana pudding is knowledge, but wisdom is knowing if others appreciate your efforts.
LARRY EFIRD
"Wisdom, knowledge and banana pudding", Salisbury Post, January 9, 2016
No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
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
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"
A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Full oft we see
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All's Well That Ends Well
Wisdom casts a more sparkling color than the ruby, it makes us shine as angels.
THOMAS WATSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Wisdom is not learning merely; it is learning with ability and disposition to use it.
E. P. DAY
Day's Collacon
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
Love in the Time of Cholera
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Emblems: Divine and Moral
As we get older, we should get wiser automatically, as the result of our experiences and learning throughout life. That doesn't always happen. Even when we try hard, we sometimes make errors in judgement. Learning from those errors is part of becoming wiser.
DOROTHY TURCOTTE
"The world in 2016 could use a little more wisdom", Niagara This Week, January 12, 2016