Wisdom Seeking Quotes

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academy

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

We all fall into biological and mental habits. It's an easy way for us to navigate day-to-day work and life, but it also doesn't do us any favours in terms of growing into wisdom, growing into a greater understanding of each other, growing into a deeper relationship - all the things that we really crave.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It's to give meaning to things, find your way in the world, believe that in the end, in every instance, good will overcome evil, even if there's a bit of suffering along the way.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.