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Wisdom: Quotations from Burning Words

Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.— PRESSENSE

What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all other's faults, and feel our own. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.— POPE

The heart is wiser than the intellect.— J. G. HOLLAND

For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.— WM. MOUNTFORD

> The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.— F. W. ROBERTSON

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.— COWPER

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.— T. CARLYLE

What in me is dark, Illumine, what is low, raise and support.— MILTON