What Is Wisdom Quotes

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.

The realization of 'La ilaha illa Allah' is one of the states of the heart that can be neither expressed by the tongue nor thought out by the mind.

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

Wisdom and power follow endurance and patience.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

God allows in His wisdom what He could easily prevent by His power.

What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.

Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pleasant feeling.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him, "what you seek is ahead of you.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.