Quotes About Wisdom

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

Loving one another is half of wisdom.

Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.