What Is Wisdom Quotes

His Spirit speaks with promptings that are not audible—often they are much louder than that—always in perfect harmony with the Scriptures and always resounding with perfect wisdom.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.

The master secret of happiness is to meet the challenge of each new day with the serene faith that: "All things work together for good to them that love God."

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.

Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom!

I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

God is the Source of real love, joy, peace, wisdom and everything else we all need to be the people He has created us to be.

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]

The unnatural, that too is natural.

A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

One should guard against believing the great masses to be more stupid than they actually are.

We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.