Wisdom Quotes
A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.
God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.
No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.
When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.
I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.
Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.
When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.
An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."
The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.
Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.
If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.
At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.
The daily lessons have opened my mind to higher possibilities and given me a newfound personal wisdom. Success is now the only option, it’s what I now expect for myself.
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.
Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two.
The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.
In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.