Quotes about wisdom

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Michel de Montaigne

You have to get in touch with your inner guidance because it is the wisdom that knows the answers for you.

Louise Hay

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

Josh Billings

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel de Montaigne

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Edmund Burke

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them – that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

H. G. Wells

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Josh Billings

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

Laozi

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.

Buddha