Wisdom Quotes

When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

You try too hard. Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run.

To fly we have to have resistance.

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

Attitude is tremendously important in chasing success - in any field of endeavour. That's why I believe talent alone will get you very little in this world.

Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

We learn from failure, not from success!

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

I sit and talk to kids all day, because I feel like they carry the most wisdom.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

The root of suffering is attachment

We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God's love and above all, to enter into the Kingdom of God.

We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.

God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

He taught people with his best way. He showed his beauty. He was all good so peace be on him and his family.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Love turns man into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self, his true beauty, and the glory of his human existence.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.