Quotes About Wisdom

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.

The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction.

The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

Don't believe everything you think.