The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

True wisdom is knowing what you don’t know.

The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon, and planets, glorify Him in your ineffable language! Praise Him, celestial harmonies, and all ye who can comprehend them! And thou, my soul, praise thy Creator! It is by Him and in Him that all exist.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom.

All wisdom is not new wisdom.

Love is wiser than wisdom.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Life can bring much pain. There are many ways to deal with this pain. Choose wisely.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom

God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you

The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety

Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord our God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ our Lord

In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. … The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.

We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

And, when the whim changes, it is most easy and delightfully disconcerting to play with the respectable and cowardly bourgeois fetishes and to laugh and epigram at the flitting god-ghosts and the debaucheries and follies of wisdom.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy

Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing – it’s what comes through.

Intellect is not wisdom

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off

Every writer is a storyteller, but not every storyteller is a writer

That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.”

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Cleverness that the French adore and always mistake for wisdom

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

The origin of civilization is man’s determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

But I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

Not everything of value in life comes from books- experience the world.

I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST

Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There’s not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company’s identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles – job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don’t map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.

One of the things that’s interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And theres a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.

Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer’s use or by creating uncertainty.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death… just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.

A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding peaceful trust. Your hope is not in yourself; it is in Christ. Your weakness is united to His strength, your ignorance to His wisdom, your frailty to His enduring might….Let the mind dwell upon His love, upon the beauty, the perfection of His character.

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.

The things of nature are the Lord’s silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

A desire not to butt into other people’s business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child’s exuberance.

They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

True wisdom is knowing what you don’t know

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.

My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

Men always talk about the most important things to total strangers. It is because in the total stranger we perceive man himself; the image of God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of the wisdom of a moustache.

I am reminded of a lady of about my age who was asked by an earnest, little granddaughter the other day ‘Granny, can you remember the Stone Age?’ Whilst that may be going a bit far, the older generation are able to give a sense of context as well as the wisdom of experience which can be invaluable.

Some cultures believe a long life brings wisdom. I’d like to think so. Perhaps, part of that wisdom is to recognize some of life’s baffling paradoxes such as the way human beings have a huge propensity for good, and yet a capacity for evil.

The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

To change the world, we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.

Wisdom is earned, not given.

You make a choice to win and you win.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The gospel is preached in the ears of all men; it only comes with power to some. The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher otherwise men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher’s learning; otherwise it could consists of the wisdom of men.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you’re not saved yourself, be sure of that!

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman’s hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

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 to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

You won’t find God at the Seminary and you won’t find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism.

But we should rather follow the wisdom of nature.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

The whole problem with the world is the fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser people are full of doubts.

Most battles are won before they are ever fought.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

But this does not detract from the wisdom of his faith in the people and his constant insistence that they be left to manage their own affairs.

The more I see of life, the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.

Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom

Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.