Quotes About Wisdom

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

By suffering comes wisdom.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

I walk into this room All eyes on me now But I do not know the people inside Look straight through me these eyes Seeking more wisdom Than I have to give away

A man's wisdom is measured by his hope.

King Fahd was a man of wisdom and a leader who commanded respect throughout the entire world. He was a friend and strong ally of the United States for decades.

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.