Wisdom Quotes

If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.

Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.

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

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn’t make ignorance a virtue.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.