Quotes about wisdom
wisdom experience information
Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
wisdom challenges needs
You don't have wisdom for tomorrow's problems. But you will tomorrow. You don't have resources for tomorrow's needs. But you will tomorrow. You don't have courage for tomorrow's challenges. But you will when tomorrow comes. Max Lucado
wisdom fall perspective
Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.
wisdom self centeredness
The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.
wisdom science technology
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. Max Frisch
wisdom sophisticated pranks
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile. Maureen Dowd
wisdom philosophy vain
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. John Milton
wisdom sleep thinking
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
wisdom dying sublimity
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. Norman Douglas
wisdom trying diagnosis
Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. Norman Cousins
wisdom firsts principles
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle. Norm MacDonald
wisdom folly
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
wisdom goal intelligence
I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up. Noel Coward
wisdom thinking age
I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. Nina Totenberg
wisdom fall men
Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote. Miguel de Cervantes
wisdom wicked virtue
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
wisdom philosophy men
The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values and purposes that should direct his conduct is the deepest problem modern life. It is the problem of any philosophy that is not isolated from life. John Dewey
wisdom mistake thinking
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.
wisdom art truth
Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men. John Calvin
wisdom truth honesty
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.
wisdom grace may
[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it. Joan of Arc
wisdom bananas pay
As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie. George A. Romero
wisdom time thinking
We learn from history that we do not learn from history Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
wisdom finding-yourself architecture
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. Frank Lloyd Wright
wisdom wish way
In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way. George Crabbe
wisdom may relevance
Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out. Eknath Easwaran
wisdom hindsight form
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. John Fletcher
wisdom children hypocrite
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. Leo Tolstoy
wisdom ignorance teach
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. Leo Buscaglia
wisdom lying failure
We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.
wisdom knowledge-of-god pure
Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God. Lew Wallace
wisdom mathematical-logic ghouls
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. Lewis Carroll
wisdom human-experience humans
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials. Joseph Story