Wisdom Quotes

To know one’s self is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbors is genius.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

I have tried at every point to seek God’s wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

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.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

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.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.