Wisdom Quotes - page 9

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. (Kahlil Gibran)
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
One mans justice is anothers injustice one mans beauty anothers ugliness one mans wisdom anothers folly. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Raphael paints wisdom Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom is to finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. (Euripides)
Cleverness is not wisdom. View quote
Euripides
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. View quote
Rowan Williams
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion. View quote
John Stuart Mill
The man of wisdom is the man of years. View quote
Edward Young
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom. View quote
Max Born
To know the mighty works of God to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful working of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High to whom ignorance can not be more grateful than knowledge. View quote
Nicolaus Copernicus
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. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. (Francis of Assisi)
God in His wisdom made the fly; And then forgot to tell us why. View quote
Ogden Nash
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. View quote
Sophocles
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. View quote
Sophocles
Much wisdom often goes with brevity of speech. View quote
Sophocles