Quotes About Understanding

Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

There is wisdom to loving.

No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.

Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

I pray daily for wisdom on how to serve my kids without words.

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

Truth is multi-dimensional; it depends on the perspective you view from.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.