Wisdom Quotes
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.
Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul's perspective; to add to the mind's experience the soul's wisdom, awareness, and total knowing.
We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.
It's important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you.
All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service.
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.
Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
"if a rock falls on another rock on the other side of the moon, how does Islam explain it?" "Who Cares?"
We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.
The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.
