What Is Wisdom Quotes

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

The more wisdom we know the more we may earn. Those who seek to learn more of their craft shall be richly rewarded.

His bark is worse than his bite.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

Blessed if you do... Blessed if you don't... Blessed no matter what!

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Integration is nothing but your complete connection with your spirit.

The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.

I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.

Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

But it seems to me that if God had intended for you to cover your face then, in His wisdom, He would have provided you with a flap of skin for the purpose.

Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

God does not call us to rest seven days a week with our head in the sand. He calls us to make an impact wherever we are.

Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.