Wisdom Quotes
Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.
Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love.
We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.
Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.
Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.
As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.
The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.
It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.
Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.
I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.
You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.
Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age
This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.
Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.
Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.
Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.
Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.
It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices. You can really screw yourself in adolescence.
If we are ever going to develop an ability to hear from God and be led by His Spirit, we have to start making our own decisions and trust the wisdom God has deposited in our own heart.