"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."
Erma Louise Bombeck
80 Top-Notch Quotes about Wisdom
"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so."
Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
(22 September 1694 - 24 March 1773) was a British statesman and man of letters.
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that is what the public calls madness."
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau
(5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker.
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more questions than the wisest man can answer."
Charles Caleb Colton
(1780–1832) was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.
"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expresses with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."
Marlene Dietrich
(27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German-American actress and singer.
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."
Benjamin Franklin
(January 17, 1706 [January 6, 1705 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted
polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
(January 8, 1601 – December 6, 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer.
"Wisdom consists not su much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in' knowing what to do next."
Herbert Clark Hoover
(August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author.
"It requires wisdom to understand. The music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
Walter Lipmann
(1889 New York - 1974 New York) one of the fathers of modern journalism.
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."
John Stuart Mill
(20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher and civil servant. An influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy, his conception of liberty justified the freedom of
the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.
"A sensible man knows you can't please everybody. A wise man knows you can't please anybody."
Richard Francis Needham
(born 29 January 1942) usually known as Sir Richard Needham is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
