What Is Wisdom Quotes

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

Don't forget to love yourself.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Don't be so fond of what you planned that somehow to change it seems like a violation of your own choice and wisdom. It's just the opposite.

Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.

I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

You can't sing with a closed heart. You just can't do it. And if you try, as soon as you start singing, your heart just naturally opens more and more.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.