Quotes About Wisdom

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.

The more and more you are aware, the more and more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh, uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

It has made me better loving you…it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter."

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct – a gift of knowing without reasoning… Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence – it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.