Quotes About Wisdom

In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

All the words of wisdom sound the same.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

The death of the self lies in the life of the heart

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.