Wisdom Quotes

Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

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.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

Children have the wisdom of God and are closer to it than many people who have spent years in this world gaining all kinds of knowledge about the nature of religion. Children have it naturally.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Worry about Allah and what He wants you to do and He will take care of your worries.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.

Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.