Top 100 Wisdom To Quotes
#1. We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power.
Louise Hay
#2. I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#4. A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera)
There's no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. I'm glad I didn't meet you when I was younger. I wouldn't have had the wisdom to appreciate and cherish you for the gift you are in my life.
Steve Maraboli
#6. Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.
RZA
#7. To know is sometimes good, but to have the wisdom to accept what you cannot know is better.
Okey Ndibe
#8. Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
Avery Brooks
#9. It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.
Daniel Webster
#10. In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest
Pema Chodron
#11. Today you have added another candle of knowledge and wisdom to your life. May it give you the power to enlighten the whole world. On your birthday, I wish you joy and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#12. the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, the wisdom to know the difference." Amy
Catherine Lea
#13. My past is my wisdom to use today ... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver
#14. Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.
Dan Fogelberg
#15. It is wisdom, worldly wisdom, to administer even health to oneself for a long time in small doses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
Stephen Covey
#17. A guru is a person who can radiate lights of wisdom to enlighten the path of life for others.
Debasish Mridha
#18. I pray for grace, strength and wisdom to faithfully fulfill my calling in due time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#19. We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.
Robin S. Sharma
#20. It is the LORD, who changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning....So, get over it! (ref. Daniel 2:21).
Josephine Akhagbeme
#21. It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#22. Anyone can discern the evils of the factory system or the Terror.
But it takes considerable wisdom to discern the evils embedded in the staccato blather of a seventeen-year-old girl.
Peter J. Leithart
#23. Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.
Marion Dane Bauer
#24. It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department ... The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.
James Madison
#26. We should begin the day with the Bible, and as it comes to a close let the Word speak its wisdom to our souls. Let it be the Staff of Life upon which our spirit is nourished. Let it be the Sword of the Spirit which cuts away the evil of our lives and fashions us in His image and likeness.
Billy Graham
#27. For this is wisdom- to love and live To take what fate or the Gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time
let go.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#28. I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.
Michael Ian Black
#29. God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.
Thomas Brooks
#30. Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#31. But, if we regard knowledge as an antique, as "ancient wisdom" to be collected, then we are on the wrong path.
Chogyam Trungpa
#32. Decisions are the privilege we've been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing, the question is not the availability of the paper or the pen. The question is the wisdom to use them rightly.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#33. You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.
Charlie Munger
#34. It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another ... for in it are good and evil mixed.
Lloyd Alexander
#35. Do you mind telling me what you pray?"
"I pray for the wisdom to find meaning in the . . . her death."
"And have you?"
"No, Mrs. Aislabie, I find no meaning. But perhaps that's because I'm too small to see a plan so large I rarely get anything but a brief glimpse of it.
Katharine McMahon
#36. Give me the wisdom to know what must be done and the courage to do it.
George R R Martin
#37. Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.
Frederick Lenz
#38. God grant me the serenity to accept my goal weight, the courage to resist anything with more than three hundred calories, and the wisdom to check the fat grams before I open my mouth and insert a fork.
Shirley Jump
#39. If God the Father and God the Son use light, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom to function on the earth, it means that is the greatest power in existence.
Sunday Adelaja
#40. Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.
Edmund Burke
#41. He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
Mark Twain
#42. With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Keshavan Nair
#43. It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
John Of The Cross
#44. I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it, Bruno, but that does not mean I am confused about where truth lies.
S.J. Parris
#45. Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference - Alcoholics Anonymous
Stephen Covey
#48. 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
#49. The world is aching for feminine wisdom to come forward.
Tabby Biddle
#50. The future is meant to be a secret for those that can't handle life. Premonitions and the ability to see into the future, are only given to those that have the wisdom to make the right decisions, from which, accepting happiness is the most basic one.
Robin Sacredfire
#51. God asked us to get His knowledge and wisdom to build a predictable life rather than expecting miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. I wish you the wisdom to know you're better than what you've settled for, the desire for something greater, and the courage to go get it.
Steve Maraboli
#53. As we face our vulnerability and weakness, there are things you and I should pray for regularly. We should pray for purity of desire, wisdom to recognize the enemy's tricks, and strength to fight the battles we can't avoid.
Paul David Tripp
#54. 27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.
Epicurus
#56. To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make. Ironically,
Greg McKeown
#57. Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
Bennie Thompson
#58. A continual fellowship with God gives us His wisdom to properly evaluate the events that are occurring
Sunday Adelaja
#59. You owe the world a load of wisdom to dispense. If you lay hands on the grace, make it happen. They world needs you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.
Edward Bernds
#61. Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.
Peter Blair Henry
#62. People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#63. Failure gives you the experience and the wisdom to be a success in the future.
Debasish Mridha
#64. May our spirit fill us with understanding of victory and defeat, the gift of collaboration, the wisdom to choose the right path, and opportunities that inspire hope.
Celeste Cooper
#65. Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
Ruth St. Denis
#66. Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option; it is the only option. A master is a master because he has had the courage to fail and the wisdom to learn from it.
Chris Matakas
#67. Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#68. The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
Edmund Burke
#69. Increase in vision comes with wisdom to reap the harvest
Sunday Adelaja
#70. When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#71. To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
Joyce Cary
#72. We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics' justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person's lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#73. If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice.
John Steinbeck
#74. There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
Willem Dafoe
#75. She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty of age as early as possible.
George Eliot
#76. To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
#77. Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Bell Hooks
#78. When we are deeply divided over important issues facing our country and the world, "In God We Trust" for the guidance and wisdom to do what's both right and necessary for our Republic.
Marco Rubio
#79. Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#80. They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it, we have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#81. Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do.
Ashish Patel
#82. I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue ...
William Faulkner
#83. Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear ...
Peter McWilliams
#84. And a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove
F Scott Fitzgerald
#85. Patience is a virtue, just like parenting. We aren't born as parents, we learn how to be patent through our kids. From those lessons comes the wisdom to be patient!
Martin R. Lemieux
#86. Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.
Brian Jacques
#88. Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve
#89. The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#90. What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future.
Christian De Duve
#91. It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
#92. Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters.
Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in their hearts.
Toba Beta
#93. I realized that the confidence, power, and wisdom to create changes in our life come from knowing what we really are, from knowing our changeless nature.
Ilchi Lee
#94. Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#95. Allen: "One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." Panic
Stewart Brand
#96. Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced ... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.
Meladee McCarty
#97. Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.
Andy Stanley
#99. Keep your heart and mind steady on your dreams. Ask God for guidance and wisdom to help you fulfill your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#100. Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.
Wes Fesler