Quotes About Wisdom

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.

Bridge shortens the roads; wisdom does the same!

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

For heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, That man of man should ever stand in need.

Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.