Wisdom Quotes

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

Wisdom comes from disillusionment.

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we dont really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, were finally starting to learn.

Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.

It is very important that we look at what we CAN do, rather than what is impossible to do.

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.

As Seth's apprentice, I've learned wisdom of which you've never dreamed.

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

The child must teach the man.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

Wisdom subdues bigotry.

I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

As one of us transforms we activate transformational energies in others, which enables them to more readily reconnect with the wisdom of their innate creative source.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.

My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead.