Wisdom Quotes

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is a way of being.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

The days are long, but the years are short.

There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.

The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.

Haste is good only in catching fleas.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.