Cornerstones
Wisdom
Cornerstones highlights thought-provoking quotes from notable folks.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it.
Thomas Jefferson
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Confucius
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
The growth of wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of ill temper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 (KJV)
Angry people are not always wise.
Jane Austen
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Ernest Hemingway
The wise person doesn't give the right answers, but poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Herman Hesse
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
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