Quotes About Wisdom

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

When The Goodwill Of Hearts Is With You, Fountains Of Wisdom Will Begin To Flow From Within Your Own Being.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

Time flows away like the water in the river.