Quotes About Wisdom

Anger looks down from the judge's perch; wisdom comes down from those heights and looks up from below. Humility captures it.

One thing I do know is that my helpers were qualified by the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.

Who in your life is one step ahead of you in knowing people? What does that person do?

Even from those very first hours, Claire was an easy and quiet child. It was as though she already knew that she could not afford to be picky or make demands.

There's a Haitian saying, "Pitit moun se lave yon bò, kite yon bò." When you bathe other people's children, it says, you should wash one side and leave the other side dirty. I suppose this saying cautions those who care for other people's children not to give over their whole hearts, because they will never get a whole heart back.

I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their children's inheritance. Proverbs, teeth suckings, obscenities, even grunts and moans once inserted in special places during conversations, all are passed along to the next heir.

God grant us the courage to change those things we can, the serenity to accept the things we can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.

There is nothing like losing all you have in the world for teaching you what not to do. And when you know what not to do in order not to lose money, you begin to learn what to do in order to win. Did you get that? You begin to learn!

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money. It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month. But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

Another lesson I learned early is that there is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market to-day has happened before and will happen again. I've never forgotten that. I suppose I really manage to remember when and how it happened. The fact that I remember that way is my way of capitalizing experience.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind

No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

A man has to have experience and he has to pay for it.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

For smart monkeys, we can, when the mood takes us, be exceedingly stupid.

we have to keep him in a state of enlightened deception.

The saint shows (Hom. 86, p. 810) the malice and danger of small faults wilfully committed, which many are apt to make slight of; but from such the most dreadful falls take their rise.

329 A maxim which he frequently repeats is, that the knowledge of ourselves is the necessary and only step by which we can ascend to the knowledge and love of God.

There never was a truly great man, who was not a lover and encourager of learning, as of the highest improvement of the human mind

The scholar whose knowledge is made use of and benefited from, is worthier and more virtuous than seventy thousand worshippers and adorers.

On the Day of Judgement, God will interrogate people according to the wisdom he has granted them.

Opposition of one's desires is the sign of the highest level of wisdom in a human being.