Quotes for Wisdom

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

To advise is not to compel.

Anton Chekhov

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Michel de Montaigne

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

Wilson Mizner

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.

Stephen Colbert

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Francis of Assisi

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Amy Grant

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Wilson Mizner

Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.

John B. Goodenough

People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.

Masayoshi Son

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

Orson F. Whitney

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Barry White

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Euripides

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

James Buchan

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

Jaron Lanier

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton