Top 100 No Wisdom Quotes
#1. There is no wisdom but that which is focused on the fear of God.
John Calvin
#3. You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
The final step you must take alone.
No wisdom is better than this when known:
That every hard thing is done alone.
Hermann Hesse
#4. He does. All that He has decreed He performs. "But our God is in the heavens: He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased" (Psa. 115:3); and why has He? Because "there is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD" (Pro 21:30).
Arthur W. Pink
#5. No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#7. If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
Walter Savage Landor
#8. There is no happiness where there is no wisdom ...
Sophocles
#9. Wisdom begins with reverence for God.
No God, no wisdom (witness your local university).
Dennis Prager
#10. To retire is not to flee, and there is no wisdom in waiting when danger outweighs hope, and it is the part of wise men to preserve themselves to-day for to-morrow, and not risk all in one day.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#11. I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.
Russell Hoban
#13. For no wisdom is true wisdom if it does not direct all its prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice towards that final state where God shall be all in all in an assured eternity and perfect peace.
Augustine Of Hippo
#15. Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength.
John Newton
#16. Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.
Theodor Fontane
#17. The way of man has no wisdom, but that of God has ... . Man is called a baby by God, even as a child by a man ... . The wisest man is an ape compared to God, just as the most beautiful ape is ugly compared to man.
Bertrand Russell
#18. A wiser and more useful philosophy, however, directs us to consider man according to the nature in which he was formed; subject to infirmities, which no wisdom can remedy; to weaknesses, which no institution can strengthen; to vices, which no legislation can correct. Hence,
John Quincy Adams
#20. Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.
William Faulkner
#21. Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#22. You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom
John Colton
#24. 30. There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord. 31. The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.
Anonymous
#25. For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness? - BHAGAVAD GITA
Joe Hyams
#26. I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.
Woody Allen
#27. There is no wisdom for a man without harmony, and without harmony there is no contemplation. Without contemplation there cannot be peace, and without peace can there be joy?
Juan Mascaro
#28. Proverbs 21:30 (NIV). There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD ...
Anonymous
#29. Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.
Auliq Ice
#31. Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.
Czeslaw Milosz
#34. There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.
Gautama Buddha
#35. No wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity.
William Cowper
#36. Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all bare-No wisdom won with weariness;But Love goes in with Folly's dress-No fame that wit could ever win;But only Love may lead Love in.
Henry Cuyler Bunner
#37. There is no counsel like God's counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures.
Charles R. Swindoll
#39. There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham Young
#40. There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
Martin Luther
#41. I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams
Hugh Walpole
#42. There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.
Idries Shah
#43. There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.
Chris Crutcher
#44. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
Dora Russell
#45. Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.
Richard Marcinko
#46. There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.
Tian Dayton
#49. There is no passion or mission.
There is no wisdom or vision.
There is only you.
Debasish Mridha
#50. The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.
Criss Jami
#51. We are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .
Elif Shafak
#52. It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.
William Butler Yeats
#53. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#55. If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.
Lyman Abbott
#56. He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.
Dejan Stojanovic
#57. A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#58. I've written things about that, about how life's really big decisions aren't right or wrong, it's just that one lives different lives. No, I don't think your life went wrong.
Bernhard Schlink
#59. Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?
Socrates
#60. A one sided friendship brings exhaustion and there's no one deserves to be sucked dry.
Euginia Herlihy
#61. There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you.
Debasish Mridha
#62. No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.
Dean Koontz
#63. We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
Michelle Bachelet
#64. If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.
Hakim Ibn Hizam
#65. There are no coincidences. The universe works in its own way to join those of us who need to be connected.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#66. Be so bright that no one can hide the greatness of your light.
Debasish Mridha
#68. I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.
Rabia Basri
#69. There is no other, this is your life,
so be happy while you're living it.
Debasish Mridha
#70. There is no darkness light cannot conquer
Rick Julian
#71. In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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Leo Tolstoy
#73. No matter where you are, keep your life simple - that is all I am saying. Remember, a rich man is not the one who has the most, but one who desires the least.
Samina Ali
#74. There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,
is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.
Henry David Thoreau
#75. Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#77. I have read a lot about God and soul, but I have no experience of it; my name is Mind.
Saurabh Sharma
#78. No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts.
Rivera Sun
#79. Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. There is no greed in knowing what you want, getting what you want, to then having what you want. The only greed in it will be to expect what you want to fall into your lap.
Sarah Pussell
#81. An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
Horace Mann
#82. I was once like you, enlightened and "rational",
I too scoffed at lovers,
Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery.
No one is safe! Watch out.
Rumi
#83. Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner.
Debasish Mridha
#84. A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Everyone thinks that they are intelligent even though there is no sign of intelligence.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.
Elizabeth George
#87. There is no love in war but there is a lot of war in love.
Katja Michael
#88. The is no such thing as a coincidence, only Godincidence
Tom Herstad
#89. The world will see the peace when we will understand that there are no enemies but there are friends who don't understand me.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
Sophocles
#91. Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.
Epictetus
#92. Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It's no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden.
Cristen Rodgers
#93. You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide.
No guide, that is, but courage
Adam Gidwitz
#94. But listen well. In Tir na nOg, because there is no sorrow, there is no joy.
Do you hear the meaning of the seachain's song?
Alexandra Ripley
#95. Perhaps the best of us are the silent ones; those who believe in themselves and understand their place in the universe
with no desire to prove anything to anyone except themselves.
Omar F. Hashimi
#96. Water enters the dark sewer grates with no fear; it travels everywhere; it learns some things from everything and this is the secret of water's wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute.
Aberjhani
#98. no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.
love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.
AVA.
#99. Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it.
Debasish Mridha
#100. If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations.
Charles Dickens
