What Is Wisdom Quotes

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

Each one of us has all the wisdom and knowledge we ever need right within us. It is available to us through our intuitive mind, which is our connection with universal intelligence.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

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.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Conscience is God present in man.

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Never accept conventional wisdom when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world.

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!

A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?