What Is Wisdom Quotes

Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.

Failures and setbacks are a part of this experience, and it will remain in you as wisdom.

It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Let us live and move in harmony. Let us grow together. Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.

Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these are the things that count in life.

Luck never made a man wise.

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

My inner guidance is there for me to call on anytime I need or want extra clarity, wisdom, knowledge, support, creative inspiration, love, or companionship.

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.

Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Knowing that you are everything is Love.

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns.

The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.

I want to be like Solomon, and instead of asking for riches ask for wisdom and creativity.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.

God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you’re entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.