Quotes About Wisdom

Anyone who doesn't focus on Jesus Christ and His finished work has neither the wisdom of God nor the power of God.

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

The love to Wisdom is getting closer to the own bright path.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul's perspective; to add to the mind's experience the soul's wisdom, awareness, and total knowing.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.

To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.