Wisdom Quotes

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.

The wise man is astonished by anything.

There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

Where ever you are, be there totally.

... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.

Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.

Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

Jacki Smith is a masterful artist of magickal candles. I've enjoyed her blend of strong magickal intentions and great smelling scents in her products. To have her wisdom in a book is a treasure!

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.

Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.