Quotes about Wisdom
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
— Ravi Zacharias
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
— Anais Nin
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
— Ambrose of Milan
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
— Ellen Glasgow
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
— John Bunyan
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God is revealed in the book of nature for God is its author.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
— Ambrose of Milan
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse
— St. Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— St. Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
— St. Augustine