Pastoral Resources

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.