What Is Wisdom Quotes

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

It's not what life does to you but what you do to life that counts.

The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom.

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.

Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

Walk on air against your better judgement.

Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind.

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does not help you; it does not help others. In order to really help others, you need to gain knowledge-wisdom.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes.

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.

May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian)

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.