Quotes About Wisdom

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

When you're truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.