Quotes About Wisdom

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

God has many ways that He might use to achieve His ends, but His wisdom determined the best way to accomplish them.

Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

Do not desire a long life or an early death

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.