Wisdom Quotes
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We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.
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It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.
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The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.
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You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.
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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks.
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Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
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Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others.
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It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
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We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body.Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.
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The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
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Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.
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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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Silence is a fence around wisdom.
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In Christianity, the sheep tends to follow their shepherd. They will trust the wisdom and trust the decision of their pastor, so when my pastor thinks highly of him to endorse him, there must be something there.
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Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our children have not suffered greater tooth decay, as World Health Organization figures attest, and in turn our citizens have not borne the other hazards fluoride may cause.
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The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
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I associate wisdom and grace with age.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
