Quotes About Wisdom

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

The other side is beyond knowing. You cannot know what you experience on the other side, here. Wisdom is beyond the grasp of the conscious mind.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!

People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.

If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.