Defects Quote by John Tillotson

“Sometimes wisdom is simply the ability to recognize the truth, and to speak you heart, in spite of everything you fear to be true.”

— Erica Verrillo

True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

— Josh Billings

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

— Gore Vidal

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

— John Calvin

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

— Doug Larson

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

— Thomas Hobbes

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Wisdom is the understanding that God exist, and that he is the creator of all life and things in the universe and upon Earth.…

— Ellen J. Barrier

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

— Anonymous

“True wisdom would be the ability to live without this scenery, to be the same person even at the bottom of a well. But…

— François Lelord

Wisdom is like royalty. You can either be born with it, or make acquaintances with the limited amount of people who embody it.

— Kemar Hinds