Wisdom Quotes

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
- William Saroyan

There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
- Charles Dickens

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- Benjamin Franklin

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
- Vernon Cooper

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

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
- George Santayana

From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
- Anonymous Author