Quotes about wisdom

...an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.

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

Those who have judgment use it as much as in judging stones as in judging men.

They want to shake up the world, not make it wiser.

It is very difficult to be wise (through the mind); it is not difficult to be wise occasionally and by chance, but it is difficult to be wise assiduously and by choice.

To seek wisdom rather than truth. It is more within our grasp.

Wisdom is the strength of the weak.

In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

In the dusk I saw her smile, that incredible female smile. It is called wisdom but it isn't that but rather an understanding that makes wisdom unnecessary.

His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing.

His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.