Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom Of having children after having had them, So there is nothing we can do about it But warn the children they perhaps should have none.

Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

Your creativity comes from the universal source of all creation, the source of all intelligence and wisdom.

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.

It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.

We can acquire as much knowledge as we would like with a few taps on our keyboard. That's extremely valuable, but wisdom comes again from some different dimension.

A knowing of what needs to be done or what needs to be said or what needs to happen at any given time. That is wisdom and wisdom does not come from the accumulation of knowledge.

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking! He holds your hand wherever you wander.

You ever want to know what consensus and groupthink and conventional wisdom in Washington is, just find what David "Rodham" Gergen is saying and you'll find out what 99% of 'em are thinking.

Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

Enough words, little wisdom. [Lat., Satis eloquentiae sapientiae parum.]

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.

Don't drive as if you own the road; drive as if you own the car.

Two things help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.

Authentic faith is lived wisdom, exact cognition, direct experience.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

The more we take, the less we become.

I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.

The aim of all spiritual practice is love.

Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?