Quotes about Wisdom
Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
— Walt Disney
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
— Thomas Jefferson
Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.
— Aesop
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.
— David O. McKay
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
— John Lennon
We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
— Thomas Merton
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
— Thomas Paine
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.
— John Adams
We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.
— Peter Kreeft
There is no wisdom save in truth.
— Martin Luther
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
— Publilius Syrus
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
— John Calvin