What Is Wisdom Quotes

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.

Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

Wisdom is infused into every form.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

Wisdom can’t prevent the storm.

The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

All our best heroes are losers

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.

People will treat you the way YOU treat you.

Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.

We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

I was once like you, enlightened and "rational", I too scoffed at lovers, Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery. No one is safe! Watch out.

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.