Quotes About Wisdom

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.

Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.