Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

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

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.