Quotes About Wisdom

Gracious divinities protect only wise people. " 'Now, I have acted like a fool. " 'It is, therefore, natural that they should turn away from me.

We may all possess wisdom if we are willing to be persuaded that the experience of others is as useful as our own.

He who is determined to acquire common sense will use the following argument: "Doubt is a conflict between two conclusions. "So long as it exists it is impossible to adopt either. "Serenity is unknown to those whom doubt attacks. "To obtain peace, it is necessary to become enlightened, "However, it is wise always to foresee the least happy issue and to prepare to support the consequences

Enthusiasm is as brittle as crystal, but Common Sense is durable as brass.

A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties.

You're a fool. If you'd stayed where you came from, you wouldn't have ended up like this...

The secret to wisdom is curiosity.

otherwise you will always be running. Have trust and faith to guide you like a torch piercing darkness. Do not believe and do not deny, but find out for yourself – for there is no truth but the one you have earned in your own experience.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

Brother Joseph once asked Brother George A. Smith to close a meeting. Brother George A. said, "My prayers are too short." Said Joseph, "That is the reason I ask you." Let your prayers and sermons always be short, right to the point.

I say that a man that craves for office and authority does not know enough to magnify the office of a deacon; for, if he did, he would not say a word about authority, he would ask for wisdom that he might know how to magnify the priesthood placed upon him.

If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.

The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.

O sacred solitude! divine retreat! Choice of the prudent! envy of the great, By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade, We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid.

Look into those they call unfortunate, And closer view'd, you'll find they are unwise.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

Ten thousand fools, knaves, cowards, lump'd together, Become all-wise, all-righteous, and all-mighty.

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The Fool or Knave that wears a title, lies.