Quotes About Wisdom

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence... To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

Frst of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily.

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

...remember and think about the closeness of the Creator. If you live in this wisdom, it will give you endless strength and hope.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It's always with us. It always has been, and always will be. When it arises in us, we've simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.