Wisdom Quotes
God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.
The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.
Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time
The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.
And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.
Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.
Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.
If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.
Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression
Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil
Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.
Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.
The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism
Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.
Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.
I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.
To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.