Wisdom Quotes - page 18

Loving one another is half of wisdom. (Ali)
Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing. View quote
Ali
There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation. View quote
Ali
I sit beside my lonely fire And pray for wisdom yet: For calmness to remember Or courage to forget. View quote
Charles Hamilton Aide
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. View quote
Aeschylus
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own. View quote
Heraclitus
I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics. View quote
Mircea Eliade
Learning should be a pleasure, and children should grow up to imagine wisdom with a smiling face, not a fierce and terrifying one. View quote
Sarah Bakewell
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions. (Democritus)
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness. View quote
Thomas More
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself. View quote
Peter Abelard
Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship. (28) View quote
Epicurus
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. View quote
Epicurus
We have assembled inside this ancient & insane theatre To propagate our lust for life & flee the swarming wisdom of the streets. View quote
Jim Morrison
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. View quote
Karl Kraus
A Vastness, as a Neighbor, came, A Wisdom, without Face, or Name, A Peace, as Hemispheres at Home And so the Night became. View quote
Emily Dickinson
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. (Erma Bombeck)
There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge. View quote
Jack London
I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom. View quote
Confucius
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. View quote
Terry Pratchett