Wisdom Quotes

To allow your Spirit to manifest, you have to understand Its nature. Spirit can never be aggressive, can never dominate. It respects the freedom of another person because It's a free being.

One has to practice wisdom through living in the present.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on the way toward wisdom.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.

Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.

When The Goodwill Of Hearts Is With You, Fountains Of Wisdom Will Begin To Flow From Within Your Own Being.

Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

I'm looking for a market for wisdom.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.

It's never too late to learn.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.