Wisdom Quotes
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.
What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.
Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.
Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.
I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.
Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.
A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
Anyone who doesn't focus on Jesus Christ and His finished work has neither the wisdom of God nor the power of God.
