Top 100 Beginning Of Wisdom Quotes
#1. The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#2. Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.
Robertson Davies
#3. I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.
Ingrid Betancourt
#4. Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
#5. In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#6. The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#8. I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind-"
"I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom."
"It's the same thing. Humility.
Harper Lee
#9. There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.
Charles Grandison Finney
#11. The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom
Mencius
#12. To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
#13. In the deepest, most central place of our being, we don't want to cross God and our not wanting to is the beginning of wisdom.
Ken Wilson
#14. To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#15. The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
Confucius
#16. As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
R.C. Sproul
#17. The definition of terms is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
#18. The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.
E. O. Wilson
#19. This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
Ray Comfort
#20. From this moment forward, I will accept responsibility for my past. I understand that the beginning of wisdom is to accept the responsibility for my own problems and that by accepting responsibility for my past, I free myself to move into a bigger, brighter future of my own choosing.
Andy Andrews
#21. Know in self that in giving a helpful influence, the magnifying of virtues in others and the minimizing of faults is the beginning of wisdom in dealing with others.
Edgar Cayce
#23. I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
Clarence Darrow
#24. Knowing what you don't know is the beginning of wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#25. The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
#26. I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
Tina Turner
#27. the beginning of wisdom is fear to the Lord
Hlovate
#28. The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates
#30. The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
Clarence Darrow
#31. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
Mortimer J. Adler
#32. To begin to understand your Soul as an integral part of yourself and begin to connect with your Soul as a part of your full being and your true nature, is the beginning of wisdom and the portal to true joy.
Genevieve Gerard
#33. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
#34. Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.
Margaret Mitchell
#35. KINDNESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WISDOM; RECOGNITION OF THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM. I have never found this to be the case. I've gotten this far being wise without being kind, and my feeling is: If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Joe Queenan
#36. Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.
Matthew Fox
#37. It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
Wallace Stegner
#38. The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
Norm MacDonald
#39. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
Zora Neale Hurston
#40. The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.
James Hilton
#41. True: fear is the beginning of wisdom, but love perfects it!
Stefan Emunds
#43. To realize that all people are alike and all are different is the beginning of wisdom.
Jeffrey Fry
#44. Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.
Mason Cooley
#45. Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#46. It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#48. Forgetfulness is the beginning of happiness as fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Gabriel De Tarde
#50. To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#51. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
#52. Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Bible KJV
#53. The good was good and the bad was the beginning of wisdom. (Electric Brae)
Andrew Greig
#54. Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.
Philippa Gregory
#55. To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
#58. It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.
Francis Chan
#59. the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of smaller things. Drops
Jim Butcher
#60. There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#61. There is a fear of God that adoration enfolds with arms of thanks. It acknowledges the absolute power of the Creator and the inconsequence of man. This holy and reverent fear is the beginning of wisdom, for it is wise to know one's place in this world...and in the next.
Cheryl Zelenka
#62. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Leonard Nimoy
#63. My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#64. The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.
Jean Bodin
#65. Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.
C.J. Anderson
#66. Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance.
William Rotsler
#67. When you look at this mirror I hope you'll remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom.
John Barth
#69. Self-discipline is the beginning of wisdom, not its end. When we have discovered the purpose for which self-discipline exists, we will, if we are sane, hardly recall anything about self-discipline because it has enabled us to become free to see and do so much else.
James V. Schall
#70. Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom
but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.
Helen Rowland
#71. The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates
#72. Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
Terry Pratchett
#73. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end
John Bunyan
#77. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.
Gustave Flaubert
#78. By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
Terry Pratchett
#79. Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.
Iimani David
#80. In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.
Simon Van Booy
#81. The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
Paracelsus
#83. Each of us has ... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#84. You see, calling things by their proper names is the beginning of wisdom. That's a Chinese proverb and they invented writing. The wisdom, in case you're wondering, is that when you get names right, you narrow the gap between you and the thing.
Zia Haider Rahman
#85. This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#86. It's the beginning of wisdom when you admit you've gone astray.
John Brunner
#87. The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.
Ray Bradbury
#88. Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#89. And I think it was a great Frenchman, Voltaire, who said that the beginning of wisdom is the moment when one understands how little concerned with one's own life are other men, they who are so desperately preoccupied with their own. I knew nothing about you and that boy, nothing at all.
William Styron
#90. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but love is the perfection of it.
'Perfection
Steve Copland
#91. I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert.
Bryce Courtenay
#92. If one does not get it into his head from the very beginning that the world is full of unseemly situations, for the most part his demeanour will be poor and he will not be believed by others.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#93. Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom
Hermann Hesse
#94. Death is not the end; it is the beginning of the new life, the eternal life.
Debasish Mridha
#95. End of a matter is better than its beginning
Anonymous
#97. He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
Tad Williams
#99. It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.
Mahatma Gandhi
