What Is Wisdom Quotes
We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.
Take every opportunity that comes your way. You should never, never see an opportunity in the eye and pass by. Never!
It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?
Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.
A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.
It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.
It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.
Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating
Even when we are deeply divided over important issues facing our country and the world, "In God We Trust" for the guidance and wisdom to do what's both right and necessary for our Republic.
The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.
The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to reclaim our own inner voices!
And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.
The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!
There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; so much separation and so much sorrow!
Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation
But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.
