Quotes about wisdom
wisdom men should-have
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life. Samuel Butler
wisdom regret destiny
Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets. Kevin J. Anderson
wisdom children eye
There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service. There is staring into the eyes of children and elders and lovers and strangers. There is sitting silently in one spot and there is being swept along in life's turbulent current. Life itself will grant you wisdom in ways you may neither understand nor choose. It is up to you to be open to all these sources of wisdom and to embrace them with your whole heart. Kent Nerburn
wisdom pain doorways
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. Keith Miller
wisdom grateful reality
You never know what's actually going on in a person's life. You don't know what happened to them before you met them...and that's why they are the way they are. But I do think about it whenever I get in contact with my fans. I know this may be the only time they'll ever meet me. I try to take advantage of that moment and be kind and grateful. Katy Perry
wisdom heart self
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed. Ramana Maharshi
wisdom fun simple
The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
wisdom men class
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wisdom knowledge suffering
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
wisdom book justice
Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
wisdom children doctors
The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.
wisdom time book
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
wisdom men half
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
wisdom nature book
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
wisdom men ideas
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
wisdom simple simplicity
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Lin Yutang
wisdom culture said
Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said. Thomas Aquinas
wisdom moving body
The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time. Terence McKenna
wisdom humble intelligence
The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.
wisdom time work
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
wisdom men today-life
Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
wisdom knowledge men
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
wisdom form
Wisdom is infused into every form.
wisdom pain blood
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.
wisdom body teach
Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.
wisdom numbers hours
To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
wisdom valuable cheerfulness
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
wisdom soil may
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
wisdom men justice
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
wisdom surplus seeing
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
wisdom order belief
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
wisdom punishment intelligence
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
wisdom writing wrens
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.