What Is Wisdom Quotes
Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.
To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.
By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe, humanity, and God, and thus prove our value as human beings.
How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.
It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.
I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.
Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.
