Inspirational Quotes on Wisdom

“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.”

“In the spiritual world ... he will be wise who courts acquaintance with the most ordinary and transparent facts of Nature; and in laying the foundations for a religious life he will make no unworthy beginning who carries with him an impressive sense of so obvious a truth as that without Environment there can be no life.”

“Do not heed the jar of man's warring opinions. Let God be true and every man a liar. The Bible is the Bible still. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God. You have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.”

“In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.”

“May I govern my passions with absolute sway, and grow wiser and better as life wears away.”

“Wisdom is the power to see and the inclination to choose the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.”

“Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty. acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.”

“Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.”

“He who bears failure with patience is as much of a philosopher as he who succeeds; for to put up with the world needs as much wisdom as to control it.”

“A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; holy prayers and spiritual comfort; and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity.”

“The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying.”

“God is completely sovereign. God is infinite in wisdom. God is perfect in love. God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.”

“The chief means for attaining wisdom, and suitable gifts for the ministry, are the Holy Scriptures, and prayer.”

“No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.”

“Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.”

“If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.”

“If thou art wise thou knowest thine own ignorance; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thyself.”

“Science investigates - religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power. Religion gives man wisdom which is control.”

“Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.”

“A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.”