Wisdom Quotes

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

Trifles make the sum of life.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Wisdom isn't an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn't an answer. It's a question.

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention

Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

I only know that I know nothing

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

All pain is the same.

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

We are spirits clad in veils.

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.