Famous Wisdom Quotes
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
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.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.
Wisdom comes with winters.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
The wisdom of nature's cycles teaches us the importance of both endings and beginnings.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
And I love wisdom more than she loves me.