Quotes about wisdom
wisdom knowledge data
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them. Ram Dass
wisdom communication advice
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. Christopher Morley
wisdom couple two
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic. Billy Graham
wisdom two people
The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.
wisdom peace kindness
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mahatma Gandhi
wisdom philosophy slaughterhouse-five
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. Kurt Vonnegut
wisdom waiting cold
Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. William Shakespeare
wisdom judging impossible
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
wisdom art teach
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. C. S. Lewis
wisdom hands firsts
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
wisdom holy-places burning
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'
wisdom thinking differences
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.
wisdom mistake imperfection
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
wisdom heart love-is
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
wisdom absent
The absent are easily refuted.
wisdom gaps different
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
wisdom medicine disease
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
wisdom men law
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
wisdom telephones mercy
I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!
wisdom eye dark
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
wisdom tired hungry
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
wisdom important asking
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
wisdom eternity childishness
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
wisdom given selection
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
wisdom madness cynicism
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
wisdom spring men
A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring. Bill Vaughan
wisdom
I think there?s a lot of wisdom in that kind of modification. That was something we never thought about before. But now it?s a big deal.
wisdom humility understanding
Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him. Betty Smith
wisdom conceited errors
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth. Benjamin Whichcote
wisdom sometimes silent
Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent. Charlton Heston
wisdom truth intelligent
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. Carl Jung
wisdom pain light
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
wisdom physicians heal
Only the wounded physician heals.