Quotes About Wisdom

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

God does not guide those who want to run their own life. He only guides those who admit their need of His direction and rely on His wisdom.

Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.

The mind usually says, "I know, I know, I know." But the "don't-know mind" is where wisdom lives.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.