WISDOM QUOTES IX

quotations about wisdom

Wisdom is a power that allows one to stay on the fountainhead. Fountainhead signifies the origin of water. God is the origin of the living water.

JOSHUA CHOON-MIN KANG

"Return to the Word Repeatedly", Christianity Daily, January 26, 2016


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

WILLIAM JAMES

Principles of Psychology

Tags: William James


Second thoughts are ever wiser.

EURIPIDES

Hippolytus

Tags: Euripides


Wisdom is the first and mother of all stocks for the market maker.

JIMANZE EGO-ALOWES

"Is the leadership question Nigeria's gold card?", The Sun, February 4, 2016


In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

preface, The Snow-Image

Tags: Nathaniel Hawthorne


Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass.

TERENCE

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Terence


None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Knowing how to make a banana pudding is knowledge, but wisdom is knowing if others appreciate your efforts.

LARRY EFIRD

"Wisdom, knowledge and banana pudding", Salisbury Post, January 9, 2016


The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

Tags: Norman MacDonald


No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A Farewell to Arms

Tags: Ernest Hemingway


No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

Tags: Edgar Watson Howe


The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

JOHN GODFREY SAXE

"King Solomon and the Bees"

Tags: John Godfrey Saxe


A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Wisdom casts a more sparkling color than the ruby, it makes us shine as angels.

THOMAS WATSON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man

Tags: Johann Kaspar Lavater


Full oft we see
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All's Well That Ends Well


Wisdom is not learning merely; it is learning with ability and disposition to use it.

E. P. DAY

Day's Collacon


Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

Love in the Time of Cholera

Tags: Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Learning discernment is a lifelong project, and wisdom is hard-won.

JEANIE MILEY

"Learning discernment is a lifelong project", San Angelo Standard-Times, January 29, 2016


Gaining wisdom is a wonderful thing. Giving it back is better.

MIKE BELL

"Canadian jazz great Bob Erlendson set to celebrate his 85th in style with Ironwood show", Calgary Herald, January 16, 2016