Quotes About Wisdom

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

Fear dims when you learn things.

At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Fear appears from a false vision of reality.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.