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Quotes About Wisdom

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
~ Sidney Hook
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.
~ Dean Ornish
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
~ David Brainerd
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
~ John Cheever
I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
~ Tony Dungy
When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
~ Radhanath Swami
Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
~ Xenophanes
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
~ James Gleick
We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.
~ Frank Abagnale
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
~ Thomas Dekker
Keep well that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
~ Émile Zola
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
~ Sophocles
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
~ Ameen Rihani
We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups.
~ Louis B. Rosenberg
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
~ King Solomon
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
~ Plutarch
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
~ Dale Turner
It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
~ Ted Cruz
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
~ James Prescott Joule
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
~ Brian O'Driscoll
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
~ A. R. Rahman
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
~ William Cowper