Wisdom Quotes

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Meditation brings wisdom, lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
- Buddha

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
- Samuel Johnson

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- Josh Billings

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
- Anonymous Author

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- George Bernard Shaw

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
- Kahlil Gibran

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
- Sophocles

Wisdom begins at the end.
- Daniel Webster

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
- Anonymous Author