Quotes about wisdom
wisdom appreciation real
The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one's own death as a necessary process of nature.... It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it. Sherwin B. Nuland
wisdom moderation moderation-in-all-things
Moderation in all things. Terence
wisdom men wisest-man
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
wisdom humility learning
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
wisdom lying differences
In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.
wisdom heart intelligence
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner. Nicolas Chamfort
wisdom fleas retarded
That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea. Nora Roberts
wisdom grateful ignorance
To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge. Nicolaus Copernicus
wisdom giving silence
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom. Myrtle Reed
wisdom acceptance lifetime
It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.
wisdom writing people
And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people. Morris West
wisdom art perfection
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
wisdom flames textbooks
Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life. Morris Raphael Cohen
wisdom ignorance purity-and-innocence
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. Mignon McLaughlin
wisdom intelligence impossible
The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible. John Ruskin
wisdom ignorance thinking
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception. Mortimer Adler
wisdom worthy
What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living. Philip Sidney
wisdom exercise glory
The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.
wisdom stars home
I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul 's best wisdom : home of truth , Star-throned. Philip James Bailey
wisdom mean trying
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping Peggy Noonan
wisdom soul understanding
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. Paulo Coelho
wisdom experience information
Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
wisdom challenges needs
You don't have wisdom for tomorrow's problems. But you will tomorrow. You don't have resources for tomorrow's needs. But you will tomorrow. You don't have courage for tomorrow's challenges. But you will when tomorrow comes. Max Lucado
wisdom fall perspective
Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.
wisdom self centeredness
The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.
wisdom science technology
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. Max Frisch
wisdom sophisticated pranks
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile. Maureen Dowd
wisdom sweet tea
It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring. Sam Levenson
wisdom men silence
A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence. Saadi
wisdom islamic thee
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
wisdom ignorance world
If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.
wisdom men sea
The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.
wisdom islamic men
A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane