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Quotes About Wisdom

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.
~ Surya Das
The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
~ John Ray
The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
~ Voltaire
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
~ Bias of Priene
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
~ M. Scott Peck
Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Happy are those who find wisdom... She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
~ Solomon
Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.
~ Joel Osteen
Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.
~ Robbie Robertson
Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
~ Rumi
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
~ Confucius
He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.
~ Paul Brunton
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
~ Herman Melville
Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.
~ Lauren Kate, Teardrop
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
~ Isaac Newton
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
~ Shmuel Yosef Agnon
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
~ Teresa of Avila
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
~ Oscar Wilde
Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
~ Flann O'Brien