Quotes About Wisdom

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368) (Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.