There is a wisdom of the head and...a wisdom of the heart. -Charles Dickens
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
-Solomon Ibn Gabriol
The beginning of wisdom
is to do away with fear.
-Yohannes Gebregeorgis
To understand yourself
is the beginning of wisdom.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
By three methods may we learn wisdom:
first, by reflection, which is noblest;
second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third, by experience, which is bitterest.
-Confucius
For what purpose should one cultivate wisdom?
May you always ask yourself this question.
-Daisaku Ikeda
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false,
and the second, to know that which is true.
-Lactantius
The wise man is he who knows
the relative value of things.
-William Ralph Inge
The most important ingredient of wisdom
is a sense of proportion.
-Ashokananda
The mark of wisdom
is seeing all things in their right perspective.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Wisdom in an individual is the capacity
to react to any person or any given situation
in the light of a knowledge of the true nature of each.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Count him wise whose actions, words and steps
are all a clear because to a clear why.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
You can tell whether a man is clever by his questions.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his answers.
-Naguib Mahfouz
A wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.
-Claude Levi-Strauss
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
-Francis Bacon
A wise man's questions contain half the answer.
-Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabriol
The wise man is the man
who in one thing can read another.
-Plotinus
A wise man hears one word and understands two. -Yiddish Proverb
It is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
The wise speak only of what they know.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
-Sophocles
Where wisdom is perfect,
there the words are few.
-Chinese Proverb
Wisdom consists of ten parts -
nine parts of silence and one part with few words.
-Arabian Proverb
It is great wisdom to know how to be silent
and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
-Saint John of the Cross
The silence of a wise man
is always meaningful.
-Leo Strauss
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
-Epictetus
The art of being wise
is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-William James
A wise man sees as much as he ought,
not as much as he can.
-Michel de Montagine
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours
is the beginning of wisdom.
-Richard Le Gallienne
To know when to be generous and when to be firm -
this is wisdom.
-Elbert Hubbard
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better
the faults to which this instrument
with which we feel and judge can be subject.
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature
and in molding our conduct according to her law.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body. -Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A wise palate
should go with a wise heart.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
The wisest men
follow their own direction.
-Euripides
He is not wise
who is not wise for himself.
-English Proverb
The road to wisdom? -
Well it's plain and simple to express:
Ere and err and err again
but less and less and less.
-Piet Hein
Wisdom means
not making the same mistake over and over.
-Jessica Tandy
Wisdom tends to grow
in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
-Anthony de Mello
The first and wisest of them all professed
to know this only, that he nothing knew.
-John Milton
Who is a wise man?
He who learns from all men.
-Talmud
Wisdom is the cream of intelligence.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification.
-Martin H. Fischer
Wisdom is the knowledge
about principles and causes.
-Aristotle
A wise man knows the value
of compliance with Principle.
-Kenneth G. Mills
In some sense,
knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows:
for details are swallowed up in principles...
the habit of the active utilization
of well-understood principles
is the final possession of wisdom.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Real wisdom is not at all encyclopedic,
but it knows how to master everyday life.
-Hans-Ulrich Rieker
Wisdom is not knowledge,
but lies in the use we make of knowledge.
It arises from knowledge guided by love.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.
-Herman Hesse
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything
and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
-George C. Lichtenberg
Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.
-Immanuel Kant
Knowledge is science.
Wisdom is revealed truth.
-Neville Goddard
There are many branches of learning,
but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom.
-Henry S. Haskins
A man becomes wise
when he realizes fully his true relationship to the universe
of which he is a part.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Words of wisdom have no meaning
until one's own experience gives them meaning.
Each person must be enlightened by his own experience.
-Stewart W. Holmes
Wisdom is mostly the fruit of experience.
-Edward Counsel
Man acquires wisdom
by falls and recoveries.
-Karen Hamaker-Zondag
We don't receive wisdom;
we must discover it for ourselves after a journey
that no one can take for us or spare us.
-Marcel Proust
Wisdom, after all, is not a station you arrive at,
but a manner of traveling.
-Sue Monk Kidd
Wisdom is the way in which to express life
as one has understood it oneself.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
To know the meaning of all one's experiences
would make sufficient wisdom.
-A. S. Vickers
Who is wise knows more than he has experienced.
-A. S. Vickers
Wisdom is of the soul.
-Walt Whitman
Wisdom is a pure structure of the soul.
-Frederick van Eeden
Wisdom is knowledge
which has become part of one's being.
-Orison Swett Marden
Wisdom...is the oneness
of Intelligence, Will and Law.
-Franz Hartmann
Wisdom is the point of fusion
between knowledge, experience, intuition, and love.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words;
they consist of two propositions,
which are not distinct in sense,
but one and the same variously expressed.
-John Tillotson
Wisdom is a torch in the darkness.
It lightens the mind so we can see clearly
both the content and process of our becoming.
-Sang H. Kim
Wisdom is in truth an all-around rightness.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
The wisdom of life
consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
-Lin Yutang
Wisdom consists
in performing only useful actions.
-Victor Cherbuliez
A wise person is one who sees the effect of an action before he acts. -Baba Hari Dass
Wisdom consists
of the anticipation of consequences.
-Norman Cousins
Nine-tenths of wisdom
is being wise in time.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Wisdom is the essence of experiences,
the right principle at the right time.
-Strephon Kaplan-Williams
The sublimity of Wisdom is to do those things living,
which are to be desired when dying.
-Jeremy Taylor
Wisdom comes not from reason
but from love.
-Andre Gide
Intellect tempered by love is wisdom.
-Arthur Osborn
Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage
of intelligence and compassion.
-Vera Nazarian
Wisdom and compassion are inseparable.
-Christmas Humphreys
Wisdom is Alchemy.
Else it could not be Wisdom.
This is its unfailing characteristic,
that it "finds good in everything,"
that it renders all things more precious.
-Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
They would need to be already wise
in order to love wisdom.
-Johann Friedrich von Schiller
I do not think much of a man
who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom's door is ever open.
-Edward Counsel
Wise is he
who knows how to learn from all men. -Talmud
The next best thing to being wise oneself
is to live in a circle of those who are.
-C. S. Lewis
Those who follow the instructions of a wise man
become wise.
-Ramdasa
It takes a wise man
to recognize a wise man.
-Xenophanes
He who understands the wise
is already wise.
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
Wisdom is spirit devoted to man's good.
-Apocrypha
Be happy.
It's one way of being wise.
-Sidonie-Gabriell Colette
Only the one who is happy
can be considered wise.
-Saint Augustine
The most certain sign of wisdom
is continual cheerfulness.
-Michel de Montaigne
The face of a wise man is not somber or austere,
contracted by anxiety or sorrow,
but precisely the opposite:
radiant and serene, and filled with vast delight,
which makes him the most playful of men.
-Philo of Alexandria
The ending of sorrow
is the beginning of wisdom.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
Calmness of mind
is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
-James Allen
The heart of a wise man
lies quiet like still water.
-Cameroonian Proverb
Superior wisdom is superior bliss.
-Edward Young
The love of what is
is the beginning of wisdom.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
To understand the variations of love
is wisdom.
-Deng Ming-Dao
Wisdom consists in understanding
that love is more important than anything else.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
To be wise is to love,
to love is to be wise.
-Zen Saying
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul,
a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity
at every moment of life.
-Herman Hesse
Wisdom means no separation.
-Stephen Mitchell
The mark of wisdom is to see the Reality
Behind each appearance.
-Tiruvalluvar
A wise man is one who hears what makes no sound and sees what has no shape. -Zen Saying
Wisdom may be called spiritual knowledge.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Wisdom is the measure of consciousness.
-Hans-Ulrich Rieker
The world of the wise
is the spirit realized.
-James Davis
Wisdom is the ultimate power.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Of all our possessions,
wisdom alone is immortal.
-Isocrates
If you lack wisdom, what do you possess?
If you acquire wisdom, what are you lacking?
-Midrash
Man, know thyself!
all wisdom centres there.
-Edward Young
The more nearly a man knows himself for what he is,
the nearer he approaches wisdom.
-Rodney Collin
The whole of wisdom
is contained in the two Biblical statement:
"I am that I Am"
and
"Be still and know that I am God."
-Ramana Maharshi
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but the treasures are poured before you. Like unto trees of gold arranged in beds of silver, are wise sentences uttered in due season. -Khemetic Wisdom
