Quotes About Wisdom

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

By associating votive offerings with sacred images, the Catholic Church, it its wisdom, had left its formerly pagan flock a legitimate outlet for the inveterate impulse to associate oneself, or one's own effigy, with the Divine as expressed in the palpable form of the human image.

I thought power was something you could control. Something one could do at a desk or on a job site, to work in the field of power. Now the tree is gone. The men are gone, just a ground-down stump where what felt like wisdom once was.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.

Originals is a fascinating, eye-opening read that will help you not just recognize your own unique gifts, but find the strength to challenge conventional wisdom to bring them to life.

Gaining insight and perspective is not about the number of years you've lived. It's about the number of lessons you've learned.

Knowledge is best sought from experts, but creativity and wisdom can come from anywhere.

A hallmark of wisdom is knowing when it's time to abandon some of your most treasured tools, and some of the most cherished parts of your identity.

The mark of a lifelong learner is recognizing that you can learn something from everyone you meet. Knowledge is best sought from experts. Wisdom can come from anywhere.

Leaders who don't have time to read are leaders who don't make time to learn.

Common sense is rarely common practice.

In order to have more, you have to master what you have. You can't be fruitful until you are seedful" – T. E. Jakes

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth As fun as the acronym is, the Bible is neither basic nor simply instructions for what to do before you die.

There were times when he had the air of a mystic about him, as children sometimes do, as if he were staring calmly into the nature of things and had the wisdom to know there were no words for it.

I'm going to say this once,' he said, 'so you had better listen. You're twelve years old and you have a lot of ideas in your head, but nothing will wreck you quicker than if you let yourself confuse what's real and what isn't, you hear me?

There were times when he had the air of a mystic about him, as children sometimes do, as if he were staring calmly into the nature of things and had the wisdom to know there were no words for it. But more often his prescience spun him into worry.

Old women look all innocent and goody-two-shoes, but then they level some all-knowing eyes on your ass.

All this information," I say. "Yet the world is more mysterious than ever.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

I know there are a number of things you know, probably too many things you know--too many, I say, not because any kind of knowledge has the capacity to be bad in itself, but rather because certain kinds of knowledge, particularly those kinds we often describe as arcane, can, by way of their very arcanity, serve to obscure the knowledge-bearer's understanding of the mundane.

All the word's indeed a page and we must loudly tear it.