Quotes About Wisdom

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

The greatest power available to man is not to use it.

My power will be in humility.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

Ignorant power is a bane!

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.