Quotes About Wisdom

Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Because you're a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

The head thinks. The heart knows.

If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.