Wisdom Quotes
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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
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Enter to grow in wisdom. / Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.
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My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.
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We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality.
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God in His infinite wisdom knows exactly what adversity we need to grow more and more into the likeness of His Son. He not only knows what we need but when we need it and how best to bring it to pass in out lives. He is the perfect teacher or coach. His discipline is always exactly suited for our needs. He never overtrains by allowing too much adversity into our lives.
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The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
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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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Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.
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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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Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
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There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
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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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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?
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I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
