Quotes about Wisdom
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.
— Thomas Merton
The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.
— Charles Spurgeon
My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
— Edmund Burke
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]
— Euripides
The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.
— Paul David Tripp
We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.
— Gordon Hinckley
The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.
— Pope Benedict XVI
God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom
— Paulo Coelho
Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.
— John Owen