Quotes About Wisdom

A fool and his money are quickly parted.

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

Man's usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.

True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.