Wisdom

"Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool;Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness."

"Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous."

"The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk."

"They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge?...know it is the understanding graven in the heart that makes men wise."

"There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand."

"A wise man hears one word and understands two."

"Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life."

"Sometimes saying goodbye to the ones you love can be the most appropriate thing to do in order to help them understand there are consequences for each and every choice we make."

"To understand the journey you have to do the walking."

"He who becomes his most truthful self, becomes the leader for everyone else."

"Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom') is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence."

"Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such."

"You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to be prepared to change your mind if someone is at hand to put you right and guide you away from some groundless opinion."

"It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen."

"Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand."

"In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow."

"True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key."

"Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand."

"We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate."

"Wisdom gives us the understanding that God has given us commandments for our benefit."