Wisdom
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
- Confucious
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
- C. S. Lewis
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
- William Arthur Ward
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
- Marilyn vos Savant
"Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge."
-Nietzsche
"To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom."
- Elbert Hubbard
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
- Confucius
"Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too."
- Isaac Asimov
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
- Basho
"Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches."
- Bible
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
- Calvin Coolidge
"Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt."
- St. Francis of Assisi
"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach."
- Hermann Hesse
"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."
- Horace
"It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves."
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
- John Patrick
"A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything"
- African Proverb
"It is not wise to be wiser than necessary."
- Philippe Quinault
"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."
- Samuel Smiles
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."
- Sophocles
"Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation."
- Sid Taylor
"Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance."
- Unknown
"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."
- Voltaire
"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use."
- Thomas J. Watson
"Wisdom begins at the end."
- Daniel Webster
