Management development providers GNP publish a monthly set of handy quotable quotes for use in presentations, speeches or training sessions. Arranged into 100 themes including vision, change, leadership, teamwork, communication, motivation and innovation. TrainingZONE has arranged to bring you the quotes on a regular basis. This month, the theme is wisdom.
"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we can't be wise with other men's wisdom."
Montaigne, French essayist (1533-1592)
"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
William Cowper, British poet (1731-1800)
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
H L Mencken, US journalist (1880-1956)
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."
John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, economist (1806-1873)
"The believer is happy. The doubter is wise."
Hungrarian proverb
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is 'colour-blind'."
Albert Schweitzer, Asatian theologian (1875-1965)
"If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom."
Cyril Connolly, British critic, writer (1903-1974)
"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so."
Lord Chesterfield, British diplomat, author (1694-1773)
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