THE 21 BEST QUOTES ABOUT WISDOM

1.       Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. (Confucius)

2.       The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. (Socrates)

3.       Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. (Thomas Jefferson)

4.       Wisdom begins in wonder. (Socrates)

5.       A fool man flatters hisself, a wise man flatters the fool. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)

6.       Knowing others are wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. (Lao Tzu)

7.       We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. (George Bernard Shaw)

8.       The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. (William James)

9.       From the errors of others, a wise man corrects hisself. (Publilius Syrus)

10.   The doors of wisdom are never shut. (Benjamin Franklin)

11.   Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

12.   It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. (Walter Lippmann)

13.   Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. (Doug Larson)

14.   Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. (Khalil Gibran)

15.   There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. (Charles Dickens)

16.   Wisdom is learning what to overlook. (William James)

17.   To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Bertrand Russell)

18.   Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. (Arthur Helps)

19.   If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. (Leo Buscaglia)

20.   Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. (Horace)

21.   Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. (Sophocles)