Quotes About Wisdom

An individual who is financially educated can tell the difference between financial choices that are beneficial and detrimental to his financial future.

It was the face of a general to follow unto death, the face of a teacher at whose feet the wise would fight to sit, the face of a king made for the adoration of worlds: the face of a primarch. And rage made it the face of a beast.

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

From suffering I have learned this: That whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embrace the very same love which wounded her. — Mechtild of Magdeburg

As Rabbi Heschel teaches, humanity will be saved not by more information, but by more appreciation.

Julian, by calling us to interfere with patriarchy and heal the wounds that it has wracked upon human history and the human soul and the earth, beckons us from folly to wisdom. Are we listening?

Travel, she had discovered, was a delightful means of gratifying the intelligent curiosity that Dr. Johnson had called the root of all wisdom and culture. "I go to bed exhaustedly happy," she wrote in her notebook, "and wake up expectantly smiling.

None so blind as those that will not see.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

The treasures of wisdom are hidden not from us, but for us, in Christ.

Skill in secular employments is God's gift, and comes from above, Jam. 1:17.

When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon men it will make them expert even without experience.

Those who would be wise and knowing must make application to Christ.

If we are prudent and diligent in our affairs, we may trust Providence to furnish us with the bread of the day in its day.

We cannot reach true wisdom except by divine revelation.

In divine things we must not covet to know more than God would have us know; and he has allowed us as much as is good for us.

Clear heads and stout hearts make good judges.

Tears of tenderness and affection are no disparagement at all, even to great and wise men.

13  The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Those who have their eyes opened, and have some understanding in the things of God, have need to be more and more enlightened, and to have their knowledge more clear, and distinct, and experimental.

The wisdom of God is to be observed in the gradual advances of the church's interests.

part of growing to maturity, part of growing up, requires that we recognize and accept that we cannot have it all.

Not every person with their eyes closed is asleep, and not every person with their eyes open can see.