Quotes about Wisdom
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
— GK Chesterton
Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.
— Zig Ziglar
Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom.
— Joyce Meyer
In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.
— Rick Warren
My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.
— Jane Goodall
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
— Paul Tillich
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
— St. Augustine
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.
— Clement of Alexandria
You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
— Charles Dickens
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
— St. Augustine
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
— St. Augustine