Quotes About Wisdom

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Really Love itself is the extract of the whole Knowledge, it is written that in last synthesis the Wisdom can be reduced into Love, and the Love into Happiness.

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.