Is The 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. Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

#4. The love of fear and death is the beginning of wisdom.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#5. 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

#6. Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

David Gelernter

#7. The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom

Mencius

#8. To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

#9. 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

#10. As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.

R.C. Sproul

#11. The definition of terms is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

#12. 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

#13. Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

Aristotle.

#14. Knowing what you don't know is the beginning of wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#16. 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

#17. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

Mortimer J. Adler

#18. 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

#19. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

#20. 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

#21. Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

Matthew Fox

#22. 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

#23. The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

James Hilton

#24. True: fear is the beginning of wisdom, but love perfects it!

Stefan Emunds

#25. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Eugenie De Guerin

#26. To realize that all people are alike and all are different is the beginning of wisdom.

Jeffrey Fry

#27. Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

Mason Cooley

#28. Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#29. 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

#30. Forgetfulness is the beginning of happiness as fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Gabriel De Tarde

#31. To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Bible KJV

#35. Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.

Philippa Gregory

#36. To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Leonard Nimoy

#40. 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

#41. The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

Jean Bodin

#42. Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance.

William Rotsler

#43. Our stride for success is the beginning of wisdom".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#44. 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

#45. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

John Bunyan

#46. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#47. Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

Francoise Sagan

#48. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

Gustave Flaubert

#49. 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

#50. A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

Richard Le Gallienne

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but love is the perfection of it.
'Perfection

Steve Copland

#55. 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

#56. Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Hermann Hesse

#57. Death is not the end; it is the beginning of the new life, the eternal life.

Debasish Mridha

#58. Relaxation is the beginning of creativity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. The spark of light in the soul is beginning of self awareness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#63. 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

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

Confucius

#65. 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

#66. Death is not the end of life, it is the beginning of an eternal journey.

Debasish Mridha

#67. As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.

Hermann Hesse

#68. World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.

Amit Ray

#69. 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

#70. I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Tina Turner

#71. the beginning of wisdom is fear to the Lord

Hlovate

#72. The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you've always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

Robert Higgs

#73. The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

#74. Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7 NLT

Eddie Johnson

#75. Change is like a river: nothing is the same, even for an instant. Everything is continually moving through the six stages of change: about to come into being, beginning, expanding, approaching maximum potential, peaking, and finally, passing its peak and flowing into its new condition.

Wu Wei

#76. The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

Norm MacDonald

#77. 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

#78. The knowledge of God is beginning of wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#79. It is one of those fables, which, out of an unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#80. Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#81. My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom.

Samuel Morse

#82. PROV 1.7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Anonymous

#83. The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#84. 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

#85. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle.

#86. Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is "the fear of the Lord". Fear God and be wise.

Israelmore Ayivor

#87. Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

George Iles

#88. Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.

C.J. Anderson

#89. No matter how fleeting
Your smile is,
Your smile is the very beginning
Of your wisdom-light.

Sri Chinmoy

#90. Death is the beginning of a new life, not the end of the life.
You may leave this world but not our heart, you will live there for ever.

Debasish Mridha

#91. For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Plato

#92. Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom
but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

Helen Rowland

#93. The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Socrates

#94. Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Terry Pratchett

#95. Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

M. Scott Peck

#96. Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

Mitt Romney

#97. if you are to begin at the beginning of the end, do not wait till the end before you begin. Time and timing is an essential accoutrement in the journey of life.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. When fear overwhelms truth and love, we call it pain. Our spirit as women has all the knowledge and power we need to give birth and to nurture our babies. It is in our genetic coding. It has been there since the beginning of time. You can trust its wisdom.

Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa