Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Francis Quarles

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Friedrich Schiller

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Gerald Brenan

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

George Combe

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

George Crabbe

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

George William Curtis

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Gustave Courbet

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

George Eliot

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

George C. Marshall

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic ...

George MacDonald

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we don't really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, we're finally starting to learn.

Gilles Marini

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

George Santayana

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

George Santayana

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Henry Ward Beecher

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.