Quotes About Wisdom

When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.

Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.