Quotes About Wisdom

There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.