What Is Wisdom Quotes

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Our wings are small but the ripples of the heart are infinite.

God helps them that help themselves.

There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality.

To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.

age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

To know the world, one must construct it

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.

Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.

The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

God and devotee are bound for ever in ropes of love

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.