Here we have the best Wisdom Quotes from famous authors such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Tina Turner, Bertrand Russell, Orison Swett Marden, Elizabeth Kenny. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
I’m not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it’s like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
It isn’t what you do, but how you do it.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Once you label me you negate me.
Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn’t have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America’s poor deserve better than this.
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
We are wiser than we know.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups.
Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny‘s words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.
Many spiritual teachers – in Buddhism, in Islam – have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God’s Eyes.
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
No man was ever wise by chance.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it’s important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
As a parent and a citizen, I’ll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs’s example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.
When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about… this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person’s persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ‘Wisdom.’ And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.’
Please all, and you will please none.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We’re connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can’t practice to attain wisdom.
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.
Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.
There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
I’ve always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn’t have this foundation.
I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I’ve seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inner wisdom to speak to us through symbols. This includes the body or somatic problems as well as psychological ones. Dreams and drawings are useful in diagnosing physical conditions.
The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness – all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had – outside of us.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.
The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
When you doubt, abstain.
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Wisdom begins at the end.
I love being. There’s so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn’t it great just being?
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Never cut what you can untie.
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.
To know one’s self is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbors is genius.
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday’s heresies may be tomorrow’s conventional wisdom.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
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.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
I have authentic wisdom to share with others.
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven‘t done.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.
It is better to rust out than wear out.
The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one’s power to those humans who deserve it.
At the end of the day, if you’re not spanking your child and instilling in them the ideas of selflessness, servitude, and wisdom, you’re probably looking at a future P. Diddy in the making (maybe even a Keith Olbermann – take your pick).
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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.
Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it’s about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They’re the ones who constantly ask, ‘What if?’ and ‘Why not?’ They’re not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don’t disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.
Wisdom would dictate that a sense of proportion, empathy and balance should drive how the Workers’ Party approaches Singapore politics.
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one’s judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man’s judgment.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
I don’t have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago… I think if I feel any more free it’s simply because of the experiences that I’ve had, and the wisdom I’ve accumulated from that time.
The wisdom of age: don’t stop walking.
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
If I could go back in time and give Rookie C.J one piece of wisdom, it would be that sometimes less is more. Off the court, sometimes it’s just better to shut up and be quiet.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
I do interviews because it’s a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don’t have any great wisdom.
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
I think it’s nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It’s a fair exchange.
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
With age comes common sense and wisdom.
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life’s wisdom.
The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there’s a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don’t have.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
The closest thing I have to a manager is my parents, for all their words of wisdom and business experience.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Bankruptcy, divorce, these are feathers in my cap, I suppose. I have a wisdom which has been born from these things.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz – a true rhapsody in blue – are hunted to the edge of silence.
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God’s loving wisdom become actualities – interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.
My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
We need to hear stories from older women. There’s a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they’re silenced.
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
First appearance deceives many.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it’s nothing. They’re wrong.
When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.
Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn’t cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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.
Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well.
You know, many people have said that I’m on the edge and I’m maverick for some of the big operations that I’ve done. I’m not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, ‘Should I do it?’, guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that’s not afraid to pass on wisdom.
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Plodding wins the race.
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
I’ve led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I’ve learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I’ve learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
Man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job. It can be seen in the courage of conviction, in the courage to act with wisdom in the face of fear, and in the courage it takes to admit mistakes and move forward.
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
The result showed the wisdom of your orders.
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension… Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
The soul’s joy lies in doing.
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of ‘Noah.’ We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.
Everything important always begins from something trivial.
Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.
Don’t ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that’ll get you a million dollars – your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don’t go crazy, make sure I help my family.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
It’s now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
I am profoundly indebted to the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, whose monumental contribution to the understanding of energy was taught to me by Philip Curcurruto, a man of simple wisdom and compassionate heart.
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking – and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn’t have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
It’s not the having, it’s the getting.
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
I’m no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don’t possess any secret wisdom. I’m just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I’m highly emotional. I’m very vulnerable.
