Quotes About Wisdom

Never laugh at live dragons.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.