What Is Wisdom Quotes

Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

Do no depend on others' ideas or concepts because inside yourself is the Wisdom. For the Few.

Wisdom comes to no one by chance.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

Whose silence are you?

God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...

If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring

Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

Politics make me sick

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.