Quotes about wisdom
wisdom giving-up never-giving-up
Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others. Pema Chodron
wisdom country people
Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true. Peter Cosgrove
wisdom country voice
They (the youth of Australia) are out there clamouring in all forms of voice, and they are not so much hedging us older Australians aside as saying, 'For heaven's sake, listen to us and empower us to help drive this country towards a wonderful future.'
wisdom passion reason
Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion. Pierre Trudeau
wisdom eternity found
This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity. Rabindranath Tagore
wisdom know-thyself knows
Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe. Pythagoras
wisdom communication pythagorean-theorem
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
wisdom humble intelligence
The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
wisdom reality ego
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Shunryu Suzuki
wisdom fluidity contradiction
It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
wisdom thinking people
people get wisdom from thinking, not from learning ... Laura Riding
wisdom fear fear-not
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. Lactantius
wisdom past guidance
Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. Tryon Edwards
wisdom men wisest-man
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong. Sophocles
wisdom pride men
Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
wisdom men drink
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
wisdom men interesting
The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't. Stephen Leacock
wisdom baby growing-up
... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby. Stephen King
wisdom done
We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Stephen Vincent Benet