Quotes About Wisdom

Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undómiel daughter of Elrond.

Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.

No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.

There are also places of power that reference the fourth and fifth chakras, which are places of balance, and places of power that reference the sixth and seventh chakras, which are places of wisdom.

Psychic phenomena does not mean wisdom; it only means mental understanding of the relationship of the outer world to the inner world.

The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience