Quotes About Wisdom

Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.

Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.

Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.

How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!

Conscience is wiser than science.

Wisdom is dead. Long live information.

The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy