Wisdom Quotes

It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.

Leo Strauss
- True
- Wisdom
He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

Saadi
- Life
- Men
- Learning

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

Umar
Humility says, “Lord, I am empty without Your fullness; I am broken without Your wholeness; I am helpless without Your strength; I am clueless without your wisdom. Apart from You I am nothing. I need You!

Bob Sorge
Wisdom … never closes her school of thought but always opens her doors to those who thirst for the sweet water of discourse, and pouring on them an unstinted stream of undiluted doctrine, persuades them to be drunken with the drunkenness which is soberness itself.

Philo
- School
- Water
- Sweet
The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

Hafez
- Long
- Beautiful
- Night
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.

Ana Castillo
Not all the wisdom and skill of man can produce life in the smallest object in nature.

Ellen G. White
- Life
- Nature
- Wisdom