Quotes About Wisdom

The issue is no longer believing that Jesus was literally the Son of God, but appreciating the richness of meaning suggested by the multiplicity of Christological images. He was "the Son," yes, but also the incarnation of the Word, which was also the Wisdom of God. He was the Son of God, the logos of God, and the Sophia of God.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Ein Zimmer ohne Bücher ist wie ein Körper ohne Seele.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere. (No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies. ( Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong. )

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Calamus fortior gladio.

Just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem, as it were, to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Those who lack within themselves the means for living a blessed and happy life will find any age painful. - How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.

We must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains. We must fight it as we should an illness. We must look after our health, use moderate exercise, take just enough food and drink to recruit, but not to overload, our strength. Nor is it the body alone that must be supported, but the intellect and soul much more.