WISDOM QUOTES
quotations about wisdom
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.
ECKHART TOLLE
Stillness Speaks
The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
An intelligent man believes only half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The difference between a wise and foolish man is this--the former sees much, thinks much, and speaks little; but the latter speaks more than he either sees or thinks.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Wisdom comes only through suffering.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
HERMANN HESSE
Siddhartha
Look about, my son, and see how little wisdom it takes to govern the world.
AXEL OXENSTIERNA
attributed, Day's Collacon
You may not have very much sense. But if you have enough to keep your mouth shut and look wise, it will not be long before you acquire a wide reputation as a fountain of Wisdom.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
SOPHOCLES
Antigone
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: The music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
WALTER LIPPMANN
A Preface to Morals
Wisdom is a treasure, the key whereof is never lost.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Wisdom is understanding when to ask questions.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Harkonnen
There is a wisdom of the Head, and ... there is a wisdom of the Heart.
CHARLES DICKENS
Hard Times
Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Meditations for Living in Balance
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine