Quotes about wisdom
wisdom phones people
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. Jack Kerouac
wisdom silence dharma-bums
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
wisdom panic want
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
wisdom failure passion
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
wisdom giving-up yelling
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
wisdom leaving world
I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
wisdom men giving
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
wisdom travel stars
There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.
wisdom eye tears
My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
wisdom father hands
My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve. J. C. Watts
wisdom darkness dawn
You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come. Harrison Ford
wisdom eye blessing
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die. Hannah More
wisdom views opinion
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. Gerald Brenan
wisdom special answers
There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a fraction of what's going on in the world. You don't have to attach explanations in terms of a special revelation of God's will, a glimpse at the supernatural, evidence of a conspiracy, or anything else. Harry Browne
wisdom difficult performances
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. Harold Geneen
wisdom peace buddhist
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. Jack Kornfield
wisdom reality loving-yourself
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
wisdom hindsight form
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. John Fletcher
wisdom fun certainty-in-life
The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain. John F. Kennedy
wisdom government justice
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
wisdom thinking government
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
wisdom hard-work people
Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have. Peter Garrett
wisdom found mankind
Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind. Percy Bysshe Shelley
wisdom fun men
I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest, that is, detachment from creatures. Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest.
wisdom witness stills
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses. Pindar
wisdom yield self
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
wisdom thinking fame
Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content. Phillip Adams
wisdom knowledge keys
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. Peter Abelard
wisdom heart fire-of-love
I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts. May the fire of transformation glow in our movements. May the fire of purification burn away our sins. May the fire of justice guide our steps. May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths. May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished. Paulo Coelho
wisdom gold wealth
Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty. Plutarch
wisdom heart men
Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols. Nathaniel Parker Willis
wisdom self doubt
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. Nathaniel Hawthorne
wisdom writing men
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.