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Quotes About Wisdom

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
~ Diogenes of Sinope
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.
~ George Berkeley
Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
~ Eric Sevareid
I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it
~ Judi Dench
No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.
~ Adoniram Judson
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
~ Carl Jung
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
~ William Stafford
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
~ Epictetus
age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.
~ Joseph Murphy
Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
~ William Shakespeare
No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
~ Tony Abbott
Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.
~ John Earl Shoaff
As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.
~ Pythagoras
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
~ Omar N. Bradley
To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.
~ Elizabeth Towne
We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.
~ John Bevere
If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.
~ Wayne Grudem
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
~ Herman Hesse
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
~ Holly Near