Wisdom Quotes

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Jose Bergamin

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine j...

Jay Griffiths

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

James Prescott Joule

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

John Jewel

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

Joyce Meyer

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

Joan Rivers

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Johannes Tauler
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

John Woolman

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

John Wycliffe

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

King Solomon

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.

Monica Johnson

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Holly Near

There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you...

James Dobson

The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for t...

Noreena Hertz

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Anton Chekhov

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Abbott L. Lowell

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Abraham Verghese

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Alfred North Whitehead