Wisdom Quotes

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There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've never viewed them in any way as being separable.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

The Bible itself claims that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom".

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.

My enemy is my greatest teacher.

In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

Wisdom and inner peace must be created by yourself.

Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

Wise men still seek Him today.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

I walk into this room All eyes on me now But I do not know the people inside Look straight through me these eyes Seeking more wisdom Than I have to give away

There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.

Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.

When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

One might reasonably wonder whether any amount of failed results would cause liberals to reevaluate the wisdom - and even fairness - of their proposals.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a new, more expanded and more fruitful manifestation.

What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty.

The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

The path God chooses for each of us to follow isn't always an easy one, but we all have to decide whether or not we're willing to trust in His wisdom and embrace His will

Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.

... scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.

Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.