What Is Wisdom Quotes

Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

It all ends in tears anyway.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.

Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them

Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.