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Quotes About Wisdom

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.
~ Pope Leo I
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
~ Joseph Priestley
Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
~ Gautama Buddha
Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
~ Socrates
The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
~ Plato
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
~ Felix Frankfurter
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
~ Peter Abelard
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
~ Hugh Jackman
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
~ Edmund Burke
Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.
~ Marsilio Ficino
In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.
~ Mas Oyama
If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.
~ Rumi
You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.
~ Jim Rohn
The important things are always simple.
~ Albert Einstein
Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.
~ Gautama Buddha
Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!
~ Rumi
Because wisdom is innate, we can all enlighten ourselves.
~ Huineng
Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.
~ Georges St-Pierre
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
~ Epictetus
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
~ Baltasar Gracian
A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.
~ Charlie Munger
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
~ Charlie Parker