Wisdom Consists Quotes
26 quotes by 20 authors
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I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
— John Buchan
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Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings;…
— John Owen
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Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
— Heraclitus
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True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
— Seneca the Younger
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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
— Herbert Hoover
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom,…
— John Calvin
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Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being able to tell…
— Daniel Quinn
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Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.
— Napoleon Hill
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Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
— John Calvin
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Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and…
— Helen M. Luke
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It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of…
— Richard Whately
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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
— Norman Cousins
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Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
— Julian Barnes
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
— John Calvin
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Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
— Meister Eckhart
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do
— Paulo Coelho
Who Wrote These Wisdom Consists Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 26 Wisdom Consists Quotes as follows: