Quotes about Wisdom
It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.
— Francis Chan
When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.
— Paulo Coelho
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
— CS Lewis
The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother's prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children.
— George W. Bush
[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.
— Napoleon Hill
The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
— Shane Claiborne
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
— Edmund Burke
But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.
— JRR Tolkien
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
— Jimmy Carter