Quotes About Wisdom

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you.

Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

Money comes to those who act intelligently, and God to those who hunger for his grace

Spiritual growth is the only real growth

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.