Quotes About Wisdom

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.

True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.

Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.