quotations about wisdom
Wisdom's door is ever open.
EDWARD COUNSEL
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Maxims
Wisdom is seen to come from God; indeed, it is seen to have a divine quality itself. The Bible encourages people of faith to seek wisdom. It is important to do whatever it takes to gain wisdom, because those who were wise were seen to be closer to God, because they were seen as having the Spirit of God within them.
KENNETH TAYLOR
"Avoid foolishness ... seek wisdom", Indianapolis Recorder, March 30, 2017
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
PLATO
Lysis
The essence of Hikmah or wisdom is to place everything in its correct place, speech or action, as well as the conformance of knowledge with action.
AL-SAMARUA'I
"The deeper meaning of Subhan Allah", Islam21c, April 10, 2017
It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.
XENOPHON
Cyropaedia
If I could conceive it possible that this universe were governed by a wisdom no greater than I am able to comprehend, I should not be able to believe in a God of infinite wisdom; for finite wisdom cannot comprehend infinite wisdom.
LYMAN ABBOTT
The Theology of an Evolutionist
The first point of wisdom is to discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.
LACTANTIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The trouble is that conventional wisdom is invariably wrong.
JOHN THORNHILL
review, "The Fourth Industrial Revolution", Financial Times, January 17, 2016
'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
ALFRED TENNYSON
"In Memoriam A. H. H."
Wisdom is first and foremost needed to discern when to speak, and when not to.
RENE CAMILLERI
"The wisdom not to speak", Malta Today, January 28, 2016
Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Wisdom is not copyrighted. You have to become it.
SAMUEL AVITAL
attributed, "Intro: Wisdom is Not Copyrighted", Walking Kabbalah
There's little comfort in the wise.
RUPERT BROOKE
Tiare Tahiti
Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Vicar of Wakefield
Cunning is the mere ape of wisdom, and all hate its low tricks.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Regained
Man thinks
Brutes have no wisdom, since they know not his:
Can we divine their world?
GEORGE ELIOT
The Spanish Gypsy