Quotes about wisdom
wisdom knowledge knowing
Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. Woody Allen
wisdom fowl righteous
Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
wisdom married immortal
Wisdom married to immortal verse. William Wordsworth
wisdom greatness men
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none
wisdom book poetry
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
wisdom children knees
Wisdom sits with children round her knees.
wisdom depends
That all depends on what "is" is. William J. Clinton
wisdom acceptance concern
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. William James
wisdom philosophical learning
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
wisdom men pay
The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. William Gilmore Simms
wisdom time poverty
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. William Gibson
wisdom war light
Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill. Will Durant
wisdom men effort
The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown. Samuel Smiles
wisdom perseverance journey
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
wisdom want
We all find time to do what we really want to do. William Feather
wisdom past heredity-and-environment
The past is never dead. It's not even past. William Faulkner
wisdom sadness suffering
True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness. Whittaker Chambers
wisdom knowledge intellectual
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things. Saint Augustine
wisdom writing understanding
We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.
wisdom heart should
Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?
wisdom art kings
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."
wisdom fake-people humility
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
wisdom horse athlete
...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed. Xenophanes
wisdom giving advice
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. Wilson Mizner
wisdom differences bars
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
wisdom loss men
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved. Will Rogers
wisdom trying formulas
There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
wisdom business men
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
wisdom book donkey
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back. Zora Neale Hurston
wisdom fun stupid
The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present. Zhuangzi
wisdom understanding lazy
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear
wisdom doors oneness
The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on their words and refuse to let them out. They did not shut away their wisdom and refuse to share it. But those times were all haywire. If it had been possible for them to act, they could have done great things, bringing all to Oneness without any sign of doing so. However, the times were not favorable and it was not possible, so they put down deep roots, remained still and waited. this was the Tao by which they survived.
wisdom ignorance people
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.