Wisdom
Adlai E. Stevenson – We can chart out future …
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
Walter Lippman – It requires wisdom …
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
~ Walter Lippmann
Michel de Montaigne – We can be knowledgeable …
We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
~ Michel de Montaigne
William Shakespeare – The fool doth think …
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
~ William Shakespeare
Solomon Short – Half of being smart is …
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
~ Solomon Short
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Common sense in an uncommon …
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Woodrow T. Wilson Quote – One cool judgement …
One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
~ Woodrow T. Wilson
Lao-Tzu Quote – He who knows others …
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
~ Lao-Tzu
Sandara Carey Quote – never mistake knowledge …
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
~ Sandara Carey
Lord Chesterfield Quote – Be wiser than other people …
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
~ Lord Chesterfield
David Starr Jordan – Wisdom is knowing …
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
~ David Starr Jordan