Pope Francis Quotes

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

It will be a priority for me to ensure the smooth and speedy implementation of defence deals and projects.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.