Quotes About Understanding

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!

Everywhere we see shadowy minds, cloudy brains! World needs more light of wisdom!

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

Wisdom isn't about knowing; it's an understanding that meaning is inexhaustible.

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

Wisdom is the highest position a man can attain!

Wisdom comes only with innocence.