Quotes
Quotes about Wisdom
To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom.
Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
War challenges virtually every other institution of society--the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.
Our common Father and Deliverer, to whose prudence, wisdom and valour we owe our Peace, Liberty and Safety, now leads and directs in the great councils of the nation . . . and now we celebrate an independent Government--an original Constitution! an independent Legislature, at the head of which we this day celebrate, The Father of his Country--We celebrate Washington! We celebrate an independent Empire!
The wisdom of our ancestors.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared with it.
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me; My tendency is to philosophise On most things, from a tyrant to a tree; But still the spouseless virgin Knowledge flies, What are we? and whence come we? what shall be Our ultimate existence? What's our present? Are questions answerless, and yet incessant.
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'⦠I can't fathom my own heart.
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
