What Is Wisdom Quotes

Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

Window washers increase the vision in the windows of the buildings; wisdom quotes do the same thing in the eyes of the people!

Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal.

There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

The soul is here for its own joy.

I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

Life's too short to sit around and wait.

Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

Experience is never at bargain price.

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.