Wisdom Quotes
The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.
wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.
We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.
Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.
Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.
If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.
What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.
Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.
I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.
The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.
It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.