All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
We learn from each other. We learn from others’ mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, ‘Let’s make a wish on a star,’ there’s one thing I wish for: wisdom.
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.
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?
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
