What Is Wisdom Quotes

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

Science is not wisdom.

All I've done is give you a book. You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same time, to be in the realms of light, to be in samadhi.

Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

Has every oyster a different taste?

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368) (Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

There is no way; we make the road by walking it.

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.