quotations about wisdom
I don't want to share my wisdom, because my wisdom is going to lead you the wrong way. But if you allow me to share God's wisdom, and if that's what you want, I can help you.
BILL NEAL
"Railcar religion: Pastor finds platform on 'The Judge'", The Jackson Sun, February 6, 2016
Wisdom is a strange thing; you learn to fight for what you can achieve and give up on the things that are impossible.
RAY WILLIAMS
"Ray Williams reflects on 90 years", Goulburn Post, April 9, 2017
Cunning is seeing a hundred yards ahead--wisdom, fifty miles in advance.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY
The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos
It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
MENANDER
attributed, Day's Collacon
True wisdom is less presuming than folly; the wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
ROBERT DODSLEY
The Economy of Life
A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.
GRENVILLE KLEISER
Dictionary of Proverbs
For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves, for they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance. But this proveth rather that men are in that point equal, than unequal. For there is not ordinarily a greater sign of the equal distribution of any thing than that every man is contented with his share.
THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
In my experience, nothing has taught me more than the failures I've experienced--because they gave me wisdom to understand what to do differently next time.
DONALD CHESTNUT
"If 50 is the new 40, then what does that mean for 40?", Campaign Live, April 3, 2017
Justice without wisdom is impossible.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
Short Studies on Great Subjects
Knowledge is horizontal; it's the accumulation of facts. Wisdom is vertical; it sees life from God's perspective.
BOB RUSSELL
"Praying for political leaders", Church Central, January 26, 2016
Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY
Odes on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Locksley Hall
Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of discerning good from evil, what is to be chosen and what rejected; a judgment grounded upon the true value of things, and not the common opinion of them.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Even when we lose our way, wisdom never leaves us. And when we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that our relationship with and faith in wisdom is all we need to live a life rich with meaning, purpose, and joy, it gets simpler.
MICHAEL NEILL
"The Hedgehog of Wisdom", Huffington Post, January 14, 2016
We disgrace wisdom when we would strive to support it with folly.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.
CICERO
The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations of M. T. Cicero
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman; a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY
"Rules of the Road"
The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
ENNIUS
attributed, De Officii