Quotes About Wisdom

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.

Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

Look before you leap.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

The farther you go, the less you know.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.