Quotes About Wisdom

Wisdom that don't make us happier ain't worth plowing for.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content.

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

The proper artistic response to digital technology is to embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

Well, right now, my music is - it's just happy. I'm not in a relationship, but I know who I am now. I have wisdom. I have the power of knowing who I am. That's huge.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I only know that I know nothing

Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.