Quotes

Quotes about Wisdom


The price of wisdom is above rubies.

Old Testament

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Old Testament

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the street.

Old Testament

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.

Old Testament

Wisdom is better than rubies.

Old Testament

The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.

Old Testament

Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.

Old Testament

Wisdom is justified of her children.

New Testament

Wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Appendix

It requires wisdom to be a fool

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Youth has a body in search of a wisdom, and with age the wisdom gained is in search of a body.

Peter Ron Prinzivalli

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Oliver J. Hart

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Vernon Cooper

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fischer

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Francis Bacon

Wisdom sends us back to our childhood.

Pascal

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.

Kahlil Gibran

The wise through excessive wisdom is made a fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

Helena Petrovna Hahn Blavatsky

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