What Is Wisdom Quotes

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

No matter what the circumstances, we can be grateful that God fulfills His promises, that our faith is sufficient to sustain us, and that our eternal life is assured.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

Love me, love my dog.

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos.

Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge.

"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

‎There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.