Quotes about Wisdom
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
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.
— John Adams
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
— Victor Hugo
He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.
— Charles Spurgeon
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.
— Charles Spurgeon
The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.
— AW Tozer
A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.
— CS Lewis
I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.
— DL Moody
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
— Jacques Maritain