Quotes about Wisdom
It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.
— Will Rogers
Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.
— Gordon Hinckley
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
— Herman Melville
In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.
— Winston Churchill
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
— George Eliot
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.
— John Stott
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
— Joseph Addison
Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.
— Adrian Rogers
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
— William Temple
A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
— John Bunyan
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
— Johannes Tauler