Wisdom Quotes

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

Wisdom and strength, and my family, is what I'd like for you to pray for.

King Fahd was a man of wisdom and a leader who commanded respect throughout the entire world. He was a friend and strong ally of the United States for decades.

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother's prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children.

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.

I've always believed with age comes wisdom. And I find salt and pepper hair to be very attractive.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

You need more than your own wisdom in rearing [your children]. You need the help of the Lord. Pray for that help and follow the inspiration which you receive.

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

Don't solve your problems, dissolve your problems - so that they should not recur again.

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

What we need to know in any case is very simple.

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.