A list of Wise Sayings about Wisdom

Here are some wise sayings related to wisdom and advice from the ancestors. I hope you can gain a lot of wisdom here while living. If you have learned a better quote or the truth of life, I would appreciate it if you could leave a reply.

"In much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow." - Soloman

“Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.” ― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

"To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day." - Lao Tzu

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” - Aristotle

"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own." Michel De Montaigne

“When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey’s back.” -Zora Neale Hurston

"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own." - Michel De Montaigne

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

"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." — Woody Allen

"Your wisdom requires a supporting and nourishing ecosystem. You cannot be wise in isolation if there is great foolishness in your surroundings, environment, and ecosystem." ~Acharya Prashant

"Insecurity enters you wearing the mask of love. Fear enters you earing the mask of care. Wisdom lies in seeing beyond the masks." ~Acharya Prashant

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."– Socrates

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

The past is wisdom, the future is freedom, the present of creation. — Anonymous

“Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.” ― Raheel Farooq

“Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.” -Bob Marley

"Collective fear is not the same as collective wisdom" ~ M. K. Mahmood

“A clear conscience is a soft pillow.” ― Suzanne Woods Fisher, Amish Proverbs: Words of Wisdom from the Simple Life

"Wisdom is justified by all her children." - Jesus Christ