What Is Wisdom Quotes

Truth never hurts the teller.

To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions.

The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.

If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.

O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.

Really Love itself is the extract of the whole Knowledge, it is written that in last synthesis the Wisdom can be reduced into Love, and the Love into Happiness.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

If you would judge, understand.

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

If you desire wisdom like money and buried treasures, then you'll find it!

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

The one who has wisdom in his head and heart does not need to shout at others.

To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.

The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality. The knowledge which gives you a broad vision and a big heart is spirituality.

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.

Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom.

Look at people in your life as “practice.” The way you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.

Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

What we have to be is what we are.

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

Happy Thursday! Greet your problems and decisions with peace and calm. Use your inner wisdom to evaluate and make smart decisions for yourself! You got this !

In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

Culture is coded wisdom

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.

During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.

If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.