Wisdom Quotes

The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

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

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

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

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.

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.