Inspirational Quotes on Wisdom

“As we trust God to give us wisdom for today's decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future. ”

“The highest and most profitable learning is the knowledge of ourselves. To have a low opinion of our own merits, and to think highly of others, is an evidence of wisdom.”

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.”

“If you would pass for more than your value, say little. It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.”

“A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!”

“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.”

“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.”

“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”

“Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.”

“The fool wanders, a wise man travels.”

“If whatever men know comes through their brain without the Holy Spirit regenerating their spirit, then their knowledge will help them not one whit. If their belief rests in man's wisdom and not in God's power, they are merely excited in their soul.”

“The self-confidence of a Christian is nothing but trusting in his wisdom, thinking he knows every teaching of the Scriptures and how to serve God.”

“It is highly dangerous to receive the truths of the Bible with human wisdom, for this is a hidden and subtle method which invariably causes a believer to perfect with his flesh the work of the Holy Spirit.”

“Do not assume that after regeneration the wise have advantage over the foolish in making spiritual progress. Unless they are more faithful and submissive, their better mental comprehension adds nothing to their intuitive knowledge.”

“Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.”

“For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.”

“I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind! I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted. I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.” Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.”

“It is the height of folly to be wise too late.”

“Knowledge has two extremes which meet; one is the pure natural ignorance of every man at birth, the other is the extreme reached by great minds who run through the whole range of human knowledge, only to find that they know nothing and come back to the same ignorance from which they set out, but it is a wise ignorance which knows itself. Those who stand half-way have put their natural ignorance behind them without yet attaining the other; they have some smattering of adequate knowledge and pretend to understand everything. They upset the world and get everything wrong.”

“The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginning and end of thought.”