Any really goodquotes on wisdom?

Answer 1

As Water Reflects a Face, So a Man's Heart Reflects the Man

Answer 2

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~Elbert Hubbard

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~Juvenal, Satires

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin H. Fischer


The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson

There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart. ~Charles Dickens

Answer 3

Here are some quotes on Wisdom from a fabulous Quote Site that I often use.
http://www.quotegarden.com/wisdom.html

I hope you enjoy them........

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~Elbert Hubbard

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom begins at the end. ~Daniel Webster

Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~St. Augustine

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ~Mary Wilson Little

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
~Sara Teasdale

The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. ~Bill Veeck

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~Juvenal, Satires

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. ~Author Unknown

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. ~John Buchan

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. ~A.A. Hodge

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ~Norman Cousins

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ~James Gibbons Huneker

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ~George Santayana

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ~Doug Larson

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. ~Tobias Smollett

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ~William Wordsworth

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. ~Sophocles

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.. ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It

One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. ~Edward C. Steadman

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~William James

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ~Josh Billings

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin H. Fischer

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~Herb Caen

There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart. ~Charles Dickens

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No man was ever wise by chance. ~Seneca

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

Answer 4

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom

Answer 5

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/wisdom/
Here are a bunch of quotes, i am not sure which ones you will like the best but I like:
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."
-William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)

Answer 6

"every rose has its thorns"

"it's good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end"

"hugs are life's rainbows"

"everyone wants the fame without the pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain"

"wear sunscreen"

"respect your elders. you'll never know when they'll be gone for good"

"live life on the edge"

"do one thing every day that scares you"

goodbye

Answer 7

Well, this might not qualify as "wisdom" but I've got one or two that are ZEN. "Life is suffering, ZEN you die." and "Depression is merely anger without enthusiam." If thats what you're asking..

Answer 8

"One can only learn so much from a book. The rest is through expirience."

-Me

Answer 9

When you ask your wife what is wrong and she says Nothing. Dont ask again.

Answer 10

"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool should remain honest...."
I love this one.