Top 1200 Great Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content.

If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.

I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

I'm always interested in, I would say, not only sharing my wisdom, but acquiring other people's wisdom as well.

I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

People should not feel intimidated by received wisdom. You have to discover it yourself. If I tell you that Armstrong is great, it's meaningless; you have to hear it.

There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse.

Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it.

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

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Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True beauty grips your gut and squeezes your lungs, and makes you see with utmost clarity exactly what is before you. True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.