Top 1200 Proverbs Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.

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

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

Wisdom can be found and held onto...but wisdom can never be purchased. It is not for sale.

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

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

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

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.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

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

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

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.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

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 finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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.

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

He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.