Wisdom Quotes
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.
Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
If the partridge didn't call at the wrong moment, Neither the hunter nor the falcon would know of it. It follows from this point also, That everyone's voice betrays him.
If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
Never does any pride enter the heart of a man except that his intelligence decreases by the same amount.
The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.
The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.
I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.
Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.
