Quotes about Wisdom
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
— Winston Churchill
Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
— JI Packer
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
— Confucius
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