712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.” — Alexander Pope

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“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.” — Plato

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“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” — Lao Tzu

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“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” — T. S. Eliot

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“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.” — William Butler Yeats

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“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” — Lord Byron

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“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” — Khalil Gibran

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“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.” — Sophocles

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“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.” — Plato

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“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” — Herman Melville

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“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People; like Government.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” — Nelson Mandela

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