Wisdom Quotes: Pearls of Insight and Enlightenment (Page 7)

"Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom"

"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion"

Herman Hesse, Author

"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education"

John Updike, Novelist

"Kisses are a better fate than wisdom"

e. e. cummings, Poet

"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment"

Joanna Southcott, Celebrity

"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency"

John Updike, Novelist

"People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"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, Poet

"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength"

Phil Jackson, Coach

"Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it"

Esther Williams, Actress

"They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed"

William Cowper, Poet

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

"The result showed the wisdom of your orders"

John Bigelow, Lawyer

"Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words"

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius"

Minna Antrim, Writer

"Wisdom is humble that he knows no more"

William Cowper, Poet

"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom"

Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist

"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action"

Louis D. Brandeis, Judge

"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom"

Leo Strauss, Philosopher

"The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!""

Bill Bradley, Politician

"In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

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