What Is Wisdom Quotes

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

The human soul is an abyss

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

Love is stronger than hate.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

a problem well put is half solved.

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

The more you know, the less you need.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this?

Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others.

We are all part and parcel of one country. And that country is of love.

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?

Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.

If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

The result proves the wisdom of the act.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

Those who have no mental vigilance, Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate, With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug, Their learning will not settle in their memories.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.