Quotes About Wisdom

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; Love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.