“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”1 – Charles Spurgeon
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – Augustine
“The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.” – John Piper
“As we trust God to give us wisdom for today’s decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future.” – Theodore Epp
“The chief means for attaining wisdom, and suitable gifts for the ministry, are the Holy Scriptures, and prayer.” – John Newton
“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.” – C. S. Lewis
“There is nothing more foolish than an act of wickedness; there is no wisdom equal to that of obeying God.” – Albert Barnes
“Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God’s holiness and sovereignty, acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.” – J.I. Packer
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.” – Thomas Fuller
“Science investigates – religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power. Religion gives man wisdom which is control.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“If whatever men know comes through their brain without the Holy Spirit regenerating their spirit, then their knowledge will help them not one whit. If their belief rests in man’s wisdom and not in God’s power, they are merely excited in their soul.” – Watchman Nee
“Listen well, and you will be pronounced a ‘brilliant’ conversationalist!” – R. Kent Hughes
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” – Isaac Newton
“The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.” – Thomas a Kempis
“The heart that gives, gathers.” – Zhiming Yuan
“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” – C. S. Lewis
“The ultimate difference between God’s wisdom and man’s wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God’s grace in Christ crucified. God’s wisdom makes the glory of God’s grace our supreme treasure. But man’s wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self-determining, and not utterly dependent on God’s free grace.” – John Piper
“Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most useful, and the most agreeable.” – Thomas Aquinas
“If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees! Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is the proper use of knowledge.” – Vance Havner
“Wisdom in scripture is, broadly speaking, the knowledge of God’s world and the knack of fitting oneself into it.” – Cornelius Plantinga
“The fool wanders, a wise man travels.” – Thomas Fuller
1 All of these quotes are from the websites below: