Wisdom Quotes

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

Meditation is re-discovering the inner Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God lies in our understandings and wisdom.

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.

High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.

The thing about the intuition is that there's always a calmness to it, if it says yes to us or even if it says no. It's always very calm and a feeling of wisdom comes with it.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.