Quotes about wisdom
wisdom body teach
Body cannot teach wisdom; God only. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
wisdom ignorance persistence
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. Marcus Aurelius
wisdom encouragement lost-love
Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
wisdom doe
He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
wisdom attitude bother
Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.
wisdom men may
If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one. Thomas a Kempis
wisdom thinking perfection
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
wisdom intelligent affair
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs. Sidney Hook
wisdom jobs wake-up
And we can't avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality. Our job is to wake up to everything, because if we slow down enough, we see that we are everything. Natalie Goldberg
wisdom thinking years
We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade. Tony Robbins
wisdom philosophy yield
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. Robert A. Heinlein
wisdom men interesting
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
wisdom mind-your-own-business ninety
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
wisdom peace freedom
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.