Wisdom Quotes
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Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom.
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In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines.
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True wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.
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This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.
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Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen...
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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
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You will find the truth the way you have found your awareness, spontaneously. It's a living process.
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When you're facing all the issues of life and you don't know what to do, accept the fact that you are human. We all are. We don't have the capacity to understand Almighty God. But you know what? We know Jesus Christ. He's the wisdom of God. And He put His Holy Spirit in us. So having access to the Holy Spirit and Jesus, we can face the challenges of today with the wisdom of God.
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Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.
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The great river follows its own course before joining the vast sea. Likewise, the soul follows equally varied routes and passes through different stages, receiving here and there tributaries of knowledge, strengthening its personality and perfecting its qualities before reaching the Ocean of Eternal Wisdom.
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
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'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
