Alex Noble:
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
Andre Gide:
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
Austin Dacey:
Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.
Baltasar Gracian:
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Cicero:
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
David Starr Jordan:
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how ot do it, and Virtue is doing it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman:
It is no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.
Edith Wharton:
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Elbert Hubbard:
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg:
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
George Bernard Shaw:
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw:
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Burns:
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
George Santayana:
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana:
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Groucho Marx:
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Helen Keller:
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Henry David Thoreau:
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau:
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Immanuel Kant:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
