Famous Quotes About wisdom

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.