Wisdom Quotes

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

There are worse things than being mad.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

To me physical beauty is not the issue, vibrational beauty is and the most beautiful people I meet are those who are radiating the love and wisdom of the Divine force that breathes them.

We can and do control the direction of our own evolution.

Our gifts to this world, and this realm's gifts to us can come in many ways, often as we least expect them but they come especially when we are open to give, open to receive.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy.

[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

Music is the key to the female heart.

There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.

If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

To attain knowledge, add things every day To attain wisdom, remove things every day

Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

The big news, delicious tidbits, pearls of wisdom -- nicely packaged, constantly updated... What political junkie could ask for more?

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.

The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.

For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

It's important that we see clearly with wisdom and awareness, but also take action.

A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.