Wisdom Quotes
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Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
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Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.
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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
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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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The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die.
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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
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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.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.
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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
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Without knowing your Spirit you cannot know God.
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Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn’t it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.
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Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.
