quotations about wisdom
Now, if wisdom is God, who made all things, as is attested by the divine authority and truth, then the philosopher is a lover of God.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The City of God
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
PLAUTUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Wisdom is using your knowledge to see opportunities, risks, challenges and the things that you need to do.
JOHN BRENNAN
"Why the former CIA director is in Augusta during Masters Week", MyAJC, April 6, 2017
A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
We must attain wisdom as we go up stairs, one step at a time.
TSZE-KUNG
attributed, Day's Collacon
Wisdom casts a more sparkling color than the ruby, it makes us shine as angels.
THOMAS WATSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Knowledge means knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH
"Knowledge Versus Wisdom", The Roanoke Star, April 3, 2017
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A Farewell to Arms
Mystical wisdom is the living awareness by faith of the Lord's personal presence in one's own life and in the world. It is relevant because this creating and healing presence holds everything together, and to live life to the full, we need to draw close to this source of life.
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ
National Review, March 31, 2017
Wisdom is not learning merely; it is learning with ability and disposition to use it.
E. P. DAY
Day's Collacon
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
Love in the Time of Cholera
As we get older, we should get wiser automatically, as the result of our experiences and learning throughout life. That doesn't always happen. Even when we try hard, we sometimes make errors in judgement. Learning from those errors is part of becoming wiser.
DOROTHY TURCOTTE
"The world in 2016 could use a little more wisdom", Niagara This Week, January 12, 2016
One could argue that judgment and wisdom are the same; certainly wisdom is enhanced by judgment, but neither can be taught in the sense that knowledge can. If wisdom and judgment were learnable attributes as, say, algebra, much heartache of maturation could be avoided. Alas, it is not so.
HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH
"Knowledge Versus Wisdom", The Roanoke Star, April 3, 2017
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
CHARLES DE LINT
"Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", The Ivory and the Horn
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Full wise is he that can himself know.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
The fact that so many of us are so out of touch with [our] inner wisdom is simply a function of a lifetime of "fox training" . We've been innocently taught from the time we were born that the "right" answers to our most important questions are in the world around us, already out there waiting if only we can find them. So we search and we seek, and sure enough, there are thousands of people only too willing to share their best advice on how to find happiness, get everything we want, and outfox the other foxes to make our way in the world.
MICHAEL NEILL
"The Hedgehog of Wisdom", Huffington Post, January 14, 2016
Wisdom is an endless tower. Who but One hath ever attained the summit?
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims