Wisdom Quotes

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.

People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.

Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom

To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

We are shallow because we are mayabang, ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.

So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.

Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.

Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.

On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.

There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.

Wisdom, character, and consciousness conquer everything.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.