Quotes About Wisdom

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate

I'm trying to grow older with wisdom.

The whole point of all these conversations is to leave your mind empty, not full. If you go away with learning, you have missed the opportunity

Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

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Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, & wisdom fills your mind.

There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.