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Quotes About Wisdom

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.
~ John Ray
Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.
~ Je Tsongkhapa
I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.
~ Hilda Doolittle
You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.
~ Cormega
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
~ John F. Kennedy
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
~ Dante Alighieri
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
~ Karl R. Popper
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
~ Anthony Robbins
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Socrates
How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
~ Hakuin Ekaku
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.
~ Rene Dubos
Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.
~ Greg L. Bahnsen
Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
~ Sivananda
Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.
~ Robin Sharma
Only the fools are certain and assured.
~ Michel de Montaigne
When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.
~ Thubten Yeshe
Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening
~ Jimi Hendrix
No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
~ James Cook
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
~ Charles Dickens
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business
~ Charlie Munger