Wisdom Quotes

For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same.

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit.

Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

Times don't change. Men do.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

God has many ways that He might use to achieve His ends, but His wisdom determined the best way to accomplish them.

What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

True men of this world do not wish. They change that which they know can be changed, they accept what cannot, and they always strive for the wisdom to know the difference.

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.

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How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.

The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.

There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.

Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

We are for religion against the religions.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

Cast from your heart the bitterness.

[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.

You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.

The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.