Quotes About Wisdom

Until you have discernment, ignorance will be your main source of wisdom.

Wasting knowledge on something fleeting is only for those who have a lot of wisdom."

Water ignorance with knowledge that wisdom grows.

You can't learn from those who can't teach.

You don't catch big fish with a small pole, nor do you catch small fish with a big hook."

You have to learn to protect your house before the thief enters, after he has entered, you have to know how to pray."

God wastes no time on fleeting things.

He who does not know wisdom thinks that ignorance is knowledge."

La ignorancia ignora la sabiduría.

The Sage observes conscience and not appearance.

The school provides wisdom, food, transportation, all for free, don't wait for another opportunity to achieve your dreams.

Update your awareness before using it."

No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.

Time will say nothing but I told you so. Time only knows the price we have to pay.

Maybe that's what the quasars that stand sentinel at the end of the universe are all about—they are the spots where people like Socrates and Christ dug through; they are windows into bright and terrible wisdom. They are warnings.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.

Still, I accepted this invitation to speak tonight because if one of my fundamental rules for living a successful and happy life is: don't be the smartest person in the room, it's corollary is: if you look around and see that you are the smartest person in the room, find a new room. This is the only way you keep growing and challenging yourself to be the most interesting human you can be.

So as you get older, and as your knowledge grows, don't ever stop learning. Stay curious.

Who hath a book Hath friends at hand, And gold and gear At his command; And rich estates, If he but look, Are held by him Who hath a book. "Who hath a book Hath but to read And he may be A king, indeed. His kingdom is His inglenook- All this is his Who hath a book.

When a traveller gets a thorn in his foot,' Mbejane went on softly, 'and he is wise he plucks it out – and he is a fool who leaves it and says "I will keep this thorn to prick me so that I will always remember the road upon which I have travelled." Nkosi, it is better to remember with pleasure than with pain.

Good intelligence wins battles long before the first arrow is shot or the first sword is drawn from its scabbard.

The best dividends on labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power.

Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.