Quotes about Wisdom
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
— St. Augustine
Take up, read! Take up, read!
— St. Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
— St. Augustine
Late have I loved thee oh beauty so ancient yet so new
— St. Augustine
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
— St. Augustine
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
— St. Augustine
As "pride is the beginning of all sin," (Eccl. x, 15) so humility is the foundation of all virtue. Learn to be really humble and not, as the hypocrite, humble merely in appearance.
— St Bonaventure
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
— Saint Jerome
I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.
— Saint Jerome
The scars of others should teach us caution.
— Saint Jerome
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
— Saint Jerome
Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.
— Saint Jerome