Wisdom Quotes
Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise
Only the ones who believe ever see what they dream, ever dream what comes true.
If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.
I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.
Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.
Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.
I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got it figured out you stop growing and maybe even lose something.
I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.
So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.
Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call.
'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.
You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.
Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.
The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.
We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.
The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity.
