Wisdom Quotes

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

Wisdom's daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

So live for the kingdom of God. Seek to bring glory to Jesus Christ and the Lord will use you. It is my prayer, my constant and daily prayer, that God would keep me useable.

The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

Real kindness seeks no return.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

There are no ordinary moments.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

When the raindrop touches the ocean, can it tell a story.

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.

The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.

Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with