Wisdom Quotes

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Elizabeth Hardwick

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Erica Jong

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

Elizabeth McGovern

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

Eric Ries

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Euripides

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Ezra Stiles

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

Ezra Stiles

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Elizabeth Taylor

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Evelyn Waugh

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Edward Young

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Edward Young

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Freeman Dyson

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Felix Frankfurter

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Franz Grillparzer

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Franz Kafka

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Friedrich Nietzsche