Wisdom Quotes

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

The kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don't have any wisdom, but they do have a clear understanding about what they want to have happen.

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.

The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Imagine others complexly.

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

The most talented people are always the nicest.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

I am not the river I am the net.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.

There can be no forced inspiration.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

Do not desire a long life or an early death

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]

I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.