Wisdom Quotes
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If thou couldst trust, poor soul!In Him who rules the whole,Thou wouldst find peace and rest;Wisdom and sight are well, but trust is best.
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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
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'To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,' Viviane said. 'Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.'
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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
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I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some
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If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.
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As parents in private life teach wisdom to their children, so do poets in public life to their cities.
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In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.
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As yonder tower outstretches to the earthThe dark triangle of its shade aloneWhen the clear day is shining on its top;So, darkness in the pathway of man's lifeIs but the shadow of God's providence,By the great Sun of wisdom cast thereon;And what is dark below is light in heaven.
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Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
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Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
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I need the Lord's guidance on what to do... I asked God for wisdom.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.
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Evidently, the governing standard is to be what might be called the unfettered wisdom of a majority of this Court, revealed to an obedient people on a case-by-case basis.
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Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
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Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
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I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.
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Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a king (cf. Gen. 41).
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In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.
