wisdom quotes

• A loving heart is the truest wisdom. (Charles Dickens) [wisdom]
• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of. (Charles Dickens) [age/wisdom/age/light]
• There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart. (Charles Dickens) [wisdom/wisdom]
• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. (Robert Frost) [delight/wisdom]
• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. (Henry Miller) [soul & body/wisdom/soul & body/give]
• I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/wisdom/philosophy]
• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. (John Updike) [wisdom/parents/education]
• Prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom s root. (Robert Burns) [prudent/wisdom]
• Wisdom begins in wonder. ( Socrates) [wisdom/wonder]
• I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ( Socrates) [wisdom/poetry/instinct/inspiration]
• In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. (Theodore Dreiser) [order/wisdom/ignorance]
• The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. (Andrew Jackson) [wisdom/system/perfect/equality]
• True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. ( Akhenaton) [wisdom/mind/fool/ignorance]
• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. (Pietro Aretino) [treasure/wisdom]
• First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. ( Aristotle) [wisdom/money]
• It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. ( Aristotle) [health/wealth/wisdom]
• The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. ( Aristotle) [virtue//wisdom]
• Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. (George Arliss) [humility/wisdom/changes/life]
• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. (Francis Bacon) [prudent/question/wisdom]
• There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. (Francis Bacon) [happiness/wisdom/fool]
• Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. (Francis Bacon) [silence/wisdom]
• For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced. (Francis Bacon) [wisdom/men/envy/rest]
• I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. (John Barrymore) [thinking/wife/wisdom]
• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. (Walter Benjamin) [art/truth/wisdom]
• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. (Walter Benjamin) [life/wisdom]
• The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. (William Blake) [wisdom]
• The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure. (William Blake) [wisdom/measure]
• What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. (William Blake) [price/men/wisdom/price]
• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. (Edmund Burke) [politics/wisdom]
• Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it. (Samuel Butler) [wisdom/gold]
• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Thomas Carlyle) [collectivism/wisdom/ignorance]

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