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Jean-Jacques Rousseau on wisdom
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Nathaniel Hawthorne on wisdom
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Thomas J. Watson on wisdom
Author: Thomas J. Watson“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” -Thomas J. Watson
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Mason Cooley on wisdom
Author: Mason Cooley“At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.” -Mason Cooley
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Anatole France on wisdom
Author: Anatole France“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.” -Anatole France
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Euripides on wisdom
Author: Euripides“Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.” -Euripides
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Charles Stanley on wisdom
Author: Charles Stanley“If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.” -Charles Stanley
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Francis Bacon on wisdom
Author: Francis Bacon“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.” -Francis Bacon
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Reinhold Niebuhr on wisdom
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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Peter Abelard on wisdom
Author: Peter Abelard“The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.” -Peter Abelard
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Bo Bennett on wisdom
Author: Bo Bennett“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.” -Bo Bennett
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Greg Anderson on wisdom
Author: Greg Anderson“Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.” -Greg Anderson
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Rush Limbaugh on wisdom
Author: Rush Limbaugh“Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.” -Rush Limbaugh
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John Keats on wisdom
Author: John Keats“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.” -John Keats
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George Eliot on wisdom
Author: George Eliot“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.” -George Eliot
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Carl Sandburg on wisdom
Author: Carl Sandburg“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.” -Carl Sandburg
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William Blake on wisdom
Author: William Blake“The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.” -William Blake
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Samuel Johnson on wisdom
Author: Samuel Johnson“To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.” -Samuel Johnson
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William Butler Yeats on wisdom
Author: William Butler Yeats“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.” -William Butler Yeats
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Robert E. Lee on wisdom
Author: Robert E. Lee“The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.” -Robert E. Lee
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Plutarch on wisdom
Author: Plutarch“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.” -Plutarch
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Honore de Balzac on wisdom
Author: Honore de Balzac“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.” -Honore de Balzac
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Aleister Crowley on wisdom
Author: Aleister Crowley“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.” -Aleister Crowley
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James Allen on wisdom
Author: James Allen“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” -James Allen
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Epicurus on wisdom
Author: Epicurus“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.” -Epicurus