Wisdom Quotes

• Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it,
  and virtue is doing it.
  
  
• A wise old owl sat on an oak;
  The more he saw the less he spoke;
  The less he spoke the more he heard;
  Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
  
  
• A wise man makes his own decisions,
  an ignorant man follows public opinion.
  
  
• By three methods we may learn wisdom:
  first, by reflection, which is noblest;
  second, by imitation, which is easiest;
  and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.
  
  
• Knowing others is intelligence;
  knowing yourself is true wisdom.
  Mastering others is strength;
  mastering yourself is true power.
  
  
• Wisdom is not a product of schooling
  but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
                                                             -Albert Einstein
  
• Wise men speak because they have something to say;
  Fools because they have to say something.
  
  
• The truest greatness lies in being kind,
  the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
  
  
• The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting;
  by doubting we come to the question,
  and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
  
  
• I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
                                                                     -Abraham Lincoln