Quotes About Wisdom

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.

He who hid well, lived well.

Dubium sapientiae initium. ( Doubt is the origin of wisdom .)

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star ' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

Our deepest, most painful wounds not only leave us with scars that we bear forever, but also, if we make our peace with them, leave us wiser, stronger, more sensitive than we otherwise would have been had we not been afflicted with them.

If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. A canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, and a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus without loss to itself communicates its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day we have many canals but few reservoirs.

MAY 27 CRUCIAL TO THE hermeneutical approach is the Mahayana principle of the four reliances. These are: (i) reliance on the teaching, not on the teacher; (ii) reliance on the meaning, not on the words that express it; (iii) reliance on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional meaning; and (iv) reliance on the transcendent wisdom of deep experience, not on mere knowledge.

Padre Pio once said when recalling his childhood. "I was an unsalted piece of macaroni

a relationship isn't good because it lasts a lifetime. A relationship is good if it gives you the wisdom of a lifetime.

No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you cultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquire and which you are not going to receive through revelation.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

Only the man that knows to little, knows too much." Nero Wolfe

You know what my boss says? He says that skepticism is a good watchdog if you know when to take the leash off.

Nothing is obvious in itself. Obviousness is subjective.

but I had long since learned from Wolfe that the corner the light doesn't reach is the one the dime rolled to.

Mrs. Rachel Bruner: [trying to goad Wolfe] I thought you were afraid of nobody and nothing. Nero Wolfe: [unruffled] I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person," - Nero Wolfe

If you want to be contentious wait until you learn what you have to contend with. It works better that way.

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person. It is mine. I am sometimes successful.