Quotes About Wisdom

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

It's only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.

Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.