What Is Wisdom Quotes

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over.

Pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one else is likely to.

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.

Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.

It's important to resolve to yourself, 'I will absolutely win!' Then this firm commitment will serve as the wellspring of great wisdom and courage that surges forth from within.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

Season of Miracles is a triumphant story with a heart of gold. Laced with wit and wisdom, the story had me chuckling out loud one minute and wiping away tears the next. Highly recommended!

When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.

There is a wisdom in the wave - high-born, beautiful - for those who would but paddle out.

Wisdom comes from intent, experience, and finding courage.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.

For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night

wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

After wisdom comes wit.

Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.

There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.

Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.