Quotes About Wisdom

The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.

Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by the wisdom of God.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power.

With the rain, falls the wisdom of heaven.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.