Wisdom Quotes

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.

Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember – nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.