Quotes About Wisdom

Wisdom and inner peace must be created by yourself.

What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.

There is wisdom to loving.

'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.