Quotes About Wisdom

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.