Quotes About Wisdom

I am content. While my shrewd fellows rode about the world to seek and to attain power and wisdom, I have elected, as and unpractical realist, to follow after beauty.

To believe that we know nothing assuredly, and cannot ever know anything assuredly, is to take too much on faith.

And how should I know whether or not I speak the truth?" the God asked of him, "since I am but the illusion of an old woman, as you have so frequently proved by logic.

Everything has always been here one way or another. So it must know what it's doing. And since I am part of this everything, a good part of me must be all right just the way it is, and the way it's doing it.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain

The spiritual disciplines are wisdom, not righteousness. But they are wise practices that train and transform our hearts

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

It takes a lifetime to organise your life

And now he had acquired the wisdom to admit that sometimes experienced his disdain for "weak, sick people" because he was frightened by any suggestion he could ever become that.

Most high, glorious God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me, Lord, correct faith, firm hope, perfect charity, wisdom and perception, that I may do what is truly your most holy will.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said … that he had a lot of issues in his life, most of which never happened.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice!

Logan Cale: If I just had my ass handed to me by a size three, I'd be inclined to mind my own business.

Truth never changes; it is the same now, yesterday, and forever, in itself; but our relations towards truth may change, for that which is hidden from us today may become known to us tomorrow.

You can't do better in this life than to be married to a wise and good-hearted woman.

humans are reeds of straw who think. Reeds of straw who know. Reeds of straw who choose. Reeds of straw who love. Reeds of straw who willingly surpass themselves.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

You suckers do realize that anyone can add a quote, right?

Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.