Quotes about Wisdom
Only two classes of people found the Babe: the shepherds and the Wise Men; the simple and the learned; those who knew that they knew nothing, and those who knew that they did not know everything. He is never seen by the man of one book; never by the man who thinks he knows. Not even God can tell the proud anything! Only the humble can find God!
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
— Jim Elliot
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
— Leo Buscaglia
Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.
— Ravi Zacharias
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
— Robert Frost
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
— Thomas Jefferson
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
— William Hazlitt
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.
— Charles Stanley
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
— Samuel Johnson
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
— TB Joshua