Wisdom Quotes
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Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
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Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
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Nature creates natural swarms. UNU uses networking technology and algorithms to take advantage of the knowledge, wisdom, and insights of a large group of people by allowing them to think as one.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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Applied properly, it logic can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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A boy is not a sitting-down animal.
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Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.
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The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: 'The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical.' All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.
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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.
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Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?
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One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
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There cannot be a new religion. Religion is a continuous living process within us which is our sustenance. It's like a ladder on which we climb, leaving one by one, step by step - but not leaving the ladder. All others are required.
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This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.
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By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.
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There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
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When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship.
