Quotes about Wisdom
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
— Cicero
It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
— John Wycliffe
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
— Aesop
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
— CS Lewis
It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
— John of the Cross
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.
— Clement of Alexandria
When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
— Andy Stanley
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.
— Gregory of Nazianzus
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
— Epicurus
I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.
— Erwin McManus
Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
— Watchman Nee
Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.
— DL Moody