Wisdom Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Jean de La Fontaine

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

John Updike

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Charles de Montesquieu

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Francois Rabelais

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

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

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Walter Savage Landor

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Jenny Shipley

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Laurence Sterne

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

George Byron

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Michel de Montaigne

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

John Cheever

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

George Savile

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

Rabindranath Tagore

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Plutarch

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Doug Larson

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Cyril Connolly

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

Albert Schweitzer

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Ben Jonson

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

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Samuel Richardson

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Jose Bergamin