Powerful Quotes on Wisdom

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

On retreat we stop avoiding the pain of the disconnect between our deepest desires and the way we are actually living. We have time and space to reflect on our life rhythms to see if they are really w...

Life is short, and we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding, insight into a meaning greater than ourselves. The beginning of awe is wonder, and the beginning of wisdom is awe.

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. On the near side of complexity is simplistic; on the far...

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

A wise man seeks much counsel ... a fool listens to all of it.

What do you want to achieve? Greater riches? Cheaper chicken? A happier life, a longer life? Is it power over your neighbors that you are after? Are you only running away from your death? Or are you s...

If you wish to improve be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters.

Intellect is therefore a vital force in history, but it can also be a dissolvent and destructive power. Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional ...

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

To believe one does not need counsel is great pride.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found.

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength for the journey that still lies ahead.

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you ...

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Failures are divided into two classes — those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.

This is an age for spiritual heroes—a time for men and women to be heroic in faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its messa...

Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding, insight into a meaning greater than ourselves. The beginning of awe is wonder, and the beginning of wisdom is awe.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how t...