Quotes and Sayings about Wisdom

Wisdom is the offspring of suffering and time.

Izaro in Path of Exile

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Jane Fonda

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Knowledge Society Science

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Bill Clinton

Strength

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Kenny Rogers

Age

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann

Taubheit

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

Knowledge

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracián

Courage

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

Xenophanes

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Xenophanes

Intelligence

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

David Hume

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Silence

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Mind vs. Heart

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

Being Silent Knowledge Talking

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein - Brief, 22. März 1944

School

The older I get, the more I realize that age doesn't bring wisdom.

John Teller in Sons Of Anarchy - Season 1 Episode 6

Age

The beginning of wisdom's always showing respect for wisdom.

Alexander Herzen

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Bob Marley

World

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that!
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Martin Luther King

Love Hatred

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Age

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

Xenophanes

Truth

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

Xenophanes

Hard to cast a spell with a blade in your throat isn't it, witch?

Shadow in Path of Exile

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Jane Fonda

Motivation Positive Quotes

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

Violence

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

David Suzuki

Society Climate Change

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Religion Science

We can't do everything, but we have to do, what we can do.

Bill Clinton

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

Uncle Ben in Spider-Man

Power Responsibility Strength

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Kenny Rogers

Birthday Age

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Walter Lippmann

He who is deaf, blind and silent, lives a thousand years in peace.

John Gotti

Indifference Blindness Taubheit

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

Giving Up

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Baltasar Gracián

Motivation

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

David Hume

Governments

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Francis Bacon

Light Darkness Good & Evil

The bare necessities of life will come to you.

Balu in The Jungle Book

Silence

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Children & Childhood Christmas

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

Grand Pabbie in Frozen -

Heart Mind vs. Heart Head

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Love Peace Power

That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fck up for a minute and comfortably share the silence.

Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction

Being Silent

'I don't think...'
'Then you shouldn't talk', said the Hatter.

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

Thinking Talking

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity Imagination

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Rose Kennedy

Learning School

Einstein said that any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. But it takes a touch of genius and lots of courage to move something in the opposite direction. I'm realizing that my touch of genius and my courage are coming too little, too late.

John Teller in Sons Of Anarchy - Season 1 Episode 8

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