Wisdom Quotes

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.

If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!

When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself.

Experience does not give you wisdom, it gives you habits.

The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.

To be generous is the best way to live in this world.

Whatever you have to say, you say it from your heart.

The best way to be with your spirit is to forgive.

The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.

Auspiciousness comes only through balance.

You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.

Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity.

When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul is on the axis, which is silent. So he has the peace within himself.

The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.

To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything happens inside us instead.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.

There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.

You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.

You are what you seek.

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view.

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.