Quotes about Wisdom
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
Season of Miracles is a triumphant story with a heart of gold. Laced with wit and wisdom, the story had me chuckling out loud one minute and wiping away tears the next. Highly recommended!
— Deborah Raney
There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.
— AW Tozer
The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
— Dallas Willard
The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad.
— Heinrich Heine
You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.
— Robin Sharma
It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.
— Thomas a Kempis
Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
— Samuel Johnson
You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
— Robert Frost
'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.
— Brigham Young