Wisdom Quotes

Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

We tend to live up to our expectations.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

If you won't improve yourself, who will?

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

Only those who row the boat make waves

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

Chase away sorrow by living

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

Many a truth is told in jest.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.