Quotes About Wisdom

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

Window washers increase the vision in the windows of the buildings; wisdom quotes do the same thing in the eyes of the people!

There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.

The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.