Quotes and Sayings about Wisdom

Wisdom is the offspring of suffering and time.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The older I get, the more I realize that age doesn't bring wisdom.

The beginning of wisdom's always showing respect for wisdom.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that!
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

You're never too old to be young.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

Hard to cast a spell with a blade in your throat isn't it, witch?

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

We can't do everything, but we have to do, what we can do.

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

He who is deaf, blind and silent, lives a thousand years in peace.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

The bare necessities of life will come to you.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fck up for a minute and comfortably share the silence.

'I don't think...'
'Then you shouldn't talk', said the Hatter.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Einstein said that any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. But it takes a touch of genius and lots of courage to move something in the opposite direction. I'm realizing that my touch of genius and my courage are coming too little, too late.