Wisdom Quotes
-
Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
-
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
-
Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
-
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
-
Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.
-
Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.
-
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
-
Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.
-
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
-
For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.
-
Nature is what we see, The Hill, the Afternoon- Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee, Nay-Nature is Heaven.Nature is what we hear, The Bobolink, the Sea- Thunder, the Cricket- Nay,-Nature is Harmony.Nature is what we know But have no art to say, So impotent our wisdom is To Her simplicity.
-
If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
-
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
-
I associate wisdom and grace with age.
-
We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
-
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
-
Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.
-
Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.
-
God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
-
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
-
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.
-
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
-
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
-
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
