Wisdom Quotes
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.
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We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
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Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
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In the midst of possible world war, of wholesale destruction, I find my only question this: are there enough people now who believe? Is there time enough left for the wise to act? It is a contest between ignorance and death, or wisdom and life. My faith in humanity stands firm.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn.
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
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Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.
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Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
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Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.
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If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.
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I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.
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Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.
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Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.
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There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
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He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
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Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
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The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?
