Quotes about wisdom
wisdom long perspective
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations George Santayana
wisdom lying men
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.
wisdom understanding dignity
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
wisdom time funny-life
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. George Orwell
wisdom charming-smile clothes
The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.
wisdom lying believe
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky
wisdom men people
It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly! Friedrich Nietzsche
wisdom brother self
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.
wisdom intelligence growth
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
wisdom philosophy vain
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. John Milton
wisdom sleep thinking
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
wisdom dying sublimity
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. Norman Douglas
wisdom trying diagnosis
Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. Norman Cousins
wisdom firsts principles
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle. Norm MacDonald
wisdom folly
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
wisdom goal intelligence
I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up. Noel Coward
wisdom thinking age
I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. Nina Totenberg
wisdom fall men
Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote. Miguel de Cervantes
wisdom wicked virtue
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
wisdom father exercise
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it. Thomas Jefferson
wisdom peace war
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
wisdom rights law
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
wisdom war government-debt
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
wisdom men ideas
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
wisdom
You are what you seek. Robert Holden
wisdom people way
People will treat you the way YOU treat you.
wisdom shine-on shining
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on. Robert Herrick
wisdom humor creativity
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. Edward de Bono
wisdom fun ignorance
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 culture said
Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said. Thomas Aquinas