What Is Wisdom Quotes
Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do.
Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences
Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.
With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?
I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.
Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?
Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.
In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.
The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love.
Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!
Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.
The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.