Top 57 Proverbs Wisdom Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Proverbs Wisdom

#1. Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

#2. Haste is from the Devil.

#3. I would fain coin wisdom, - mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men - as base money - the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

Joseph Joubert

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

Bible KJV

#5. A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.

Tom Stoppard

#6. Proverbs 21:30 (NIV). There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD ...

Anonymous

#7. The idea that Wisdom could be a divine hypostasis - an aspect of God that is a distinct being from God that nonetheless is itself God - is rooted in a fascinating passage of the Hebrew Bible, Proverbs 8. ... God made all things in his wisdom, so much so that Wisdom is seen as a co-creator of sorts.

Bart D. Ehrman

#8. Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Benjamin Disraeli

#9. It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#10. The precious gems are hidden, it is not easy to find them.

Kamaran Ihsan Salih

#11. How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver (Proverbs 16:16 NKJV).

T.D. Jakes

#12. It is lack of contentment that leads to corruption.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. In Proverbs, a wisdom book of the Hebrew Scriptures, a cat would find a few "wisdom" passages as noxious as the Garden of Eden passages. Again the symbology of fruit being eaten

Leviak B. Kelly

#14. Wisdom - the wisdom of God - is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom (Proverbs 4:7).

Chris Oyakhilome

#15. If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion.

Anonymous

#17. I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.

Benjamin Carson

#18. Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day.

Brian Spellman

#19. Clear skies do not promise rain.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive, but a fool's eyes roam to the ends of the earth. Proverbs 17:24

Beth Moore

#21. Proverbs 23:9 9Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#22. Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding. PROVERBS 23:23

Joel Osteen

#23. Spring is the sacred soul of fertility.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

Anonymous

#25. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Anonymous

#26. An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.

Tahir Shah

#27. Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Charles Buxton

#28. My favorite book in the Bible is always Proverbs because it's where you can find wisdom for no matter what you're going through. It hits me every time I read it. I've always read Proverbs regularly because it helps me deal with what's happening every day in real life.

Torii Hunter

#29. PROVERBS 1:7-9 ENGAGE 1:7 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but foolsa despise wisdom and instruction. 8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. 9 They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

Anonymous

#30. People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.

Idries Shah

#31. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.

Anonymous

#33. The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father. - Proverbs 29:3

Gary Chapman

#34. Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#35. Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

W. Somerset Maugham

#36. Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

Edward Abbey

#37. We aren't going to choose paths of wisdom if we don't trust the One who has marked out those paths for us. Fear of the Lord is trust in the Lord

Lydia Brownback

#38. The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

William Penn

#39. Wisdom is a mother;
proverbs are her offspring.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#40. Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.

Idries Shah

#41. Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Joseph Joubert

#42. The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given its ultimate fulfillment as an expression of the wisdom of Christ.

Graeme Goldsworthy

#43. If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.

Askhari Johnson Hodari

#44. Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Jean De La Fontaine

#45. Proverbs 19:8-9 8 To acquire wisdom is to love yourself; people who cherish understanding will prosper. 9 A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will be destroyed.

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