Quotes about wisdom

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

Benjamin Franklin

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Charles Caleb Colton

Accustomed, as it is, to think of man as a dualism of mind and body, and to regard the former as ‘sensible’ and the latter as a ‘dumb’ animal, our cultture is an affront to the wisdom of nature and a ruinous exploitation of the human organism as a whole.

Alan Watts

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

Ray Bradbury

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

Confucius

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Oscar Wilde

Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

Shakti Gawain

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one’s self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

Benjamin Franklin

Age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.

Joseph Murphy