Quotes about Wisdom
You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.
— Winston Churchill
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
— William Saroyan
To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
— Victor Hugo
I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.
— Thomas Jefferson
What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends.
— AW Tozer
There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.
— John Calvin
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
— Aristotle
Your wisdom should be without pride.
— St. Augustine
We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.
— Charles Spurgeon
How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.
— Teresa of Avila