Wisdom
526 quotes: 35 by Keith Craft, 491 from other voices.
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- When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
- When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.
- When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defence strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
- When you set out on a journey of revenge, first dig two graves.
- When you think in decades and not days, you naturally avoid a lot of bad behavior and problems.
- Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
- 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?
- Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.
- Whether the succeeding generation is to be more virtuous than their predecessors I cannot say; but I am sure they will have more worldly wisdom, and enough, I hope, to know that honesty is the 1st chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Who has the greatest possessions? He who wants least.
- Who is wise? He who learns from all men
- Who questioneth much, shall learn much, and content much.
- Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
- Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
- Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
- Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
- Wisdom is really about figuring the long-term consequences of your actions.
- Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God’s viewpoint.
- Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
- Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
- Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
- Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
- Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
- Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
- Wisdom towards God is to be gotten out of God's Book; and that by digging. Most people do but walk over the surface of it, and pick up here and there a flower. Few dig into it.
- Wise men don’t need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren’t wise.
- Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
- Wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
- Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
- Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
- Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it.
- Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
- Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
- You cannot master yourself unless you know yourself. There are mirrors for the face but none for the mind.
- You cannot teach a man anything; You can only help him find it within himself.
- You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions.
- You know, Percy, everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
- You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
- You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.