quotations about wisdom
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
The wisest man is he who does not require advice.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
It is true that wisdom has wealth in the one hand and pleasure in the other, that her ways are ways of pleasantness, her paths are paths of peace; but she will never come to one who follows her for the sake of the wealth in the one hand or the pleasure in the other.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Seeking After God
Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Vicar of Wakefield
Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
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
The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Regained
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's door is ever open.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
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