Quotes About Wisdom

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.

I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

God allows in His wisdom what He could easily prevent by His power.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

Wisdom and power follow endurance and patience.

In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.

I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pleasant feeling.

If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them