Famous Quotes About wisdom

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.