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Quote DB :: Wisdom Search in this category Advice (1) Sponsored Links Quote Author Rating Rate "The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Life is a festival only to the wise." Ralph Waldo Emerson "The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work." Elbert Hubbard "In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause." T.S. Eliot "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." Francis Bacon "Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature." Marcus Tullius Cicero "A loving heart is the truest wisdom." Charles Dickens "Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." Ralph Waldo Emerson "To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates." Henry Thoreau "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." Socrates "Wisdom begins in wonder." Socrates "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." George Bernard Shaw "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Socrates "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." Bertrand Russell "Wisdom is a sacred communion." Victor Hugo "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." Elbert Hubbard "Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." Samuel Taylor Coleridge "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." Confucius "Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents." Kahlil Gibran "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Francis Bacon << Previous 1 2 3 Next >> Browse Wisdom quotes by Author: Albert Einstein Aldous Huxley Baltasar Gracian Benjamin Franklin Bertrand Russell Bill Cosby Calvin Coolidge Charles Dickens Colin Powell Confucius Daniel Webster Elbert Hubbard Francis Bacon Garrison Keillor George Bernard Shaw Henry Mencken Henry Thoreau Hunter S. Thompson J.D. Anderson Jean-Jacques Rousseau J.R.R. Tolkien Kahlil Gibran Marcel Proust Marcus Aurelius Marcus Tullius Cicero Oscar Wilde Ralph Waldo Emerson Rudyard Kipling Saint Augustine Samuel Taylor Coleridge Socrates Theodore Roosevelt T.S. Eliot Victor Hugo Walter Lippman William Shakespeare

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