Quotes about wisdom
wisdom differences moments
Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them. Guy Finley
wisdom ravens smell
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Friedrich Nietzsche
wisdom body needs
There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?
wisdom knowledge limits
Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
wisdom plato philosophical
It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.
wisdom science feelings
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
wisdom flames sage
The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
wisdom clouds long
My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
wisdom tired fighting
Lots of people have asked me what Gracie and I did to make our marriage work. It's simple - we don't do anything. I think the trouble with a lot of people is that they work too hard at staying married. They make a business out of it. When you work too hard at a business you get tired; and when you get tired you get grouchy; and when you get grouchy you start fighting; and when you start fighting you're out of business. George Burns
wisdom hurt culture
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. George Bernard Shaw
wisdom firsts life-is
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
wisdom religious fun
We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God. Erich Fromm
wisdom fool found
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Erica Jong
wisdom disappointment memorable
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot
wisdom simple compassion
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
wisdom travel adventure
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
wisdom iron-will empty-vessels
Strike while the iron is hot. Geoffrey Chaucer
wisdom cat feet
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
wisdom people ministry
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
wisdom curiosity
curiosity is the beginning of wisdom. Francoise Sagan
wisdom book history
Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage. George W. Bush
wisdom texas swag
Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'
wisdom marketing advertising-business
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. George Orwell
wisdom mind limits
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. Jean Cocteau
wisdom freedom men
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. Frederick Douglass
wisdom freedom rain
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
wisdom justice world
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. Ezra Stiles
wisdom prayer pride
Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in the foolishness of pride, that our manifold blessings are due not to God's goodness, but to our own wisdom and virtue. Too many of us have been so drunk with self-sufficiency as no longer to feel the need of prayer. Ezra Taft Benson
wisdom hurt intelligence
We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts. Euripides
wisdom science religion
What you are looking for is what is looking. Francis of Assisi
wisdom mean ends
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. Francis Hutcheson
wisdom lying honor
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. Francis Beaumont
wisdom
The wisdom of the ancients. Francis Bacon