Quotes about wisdom
wisdom hands history
We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. Malala Yousafzai
wisdom truth world
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. Maimonides
wisdom giving-up mean
If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth. Mahatma Gandhi
wisdom civilization diversity
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
wisdom successful doctors
Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by. Frank Lowy
wisdom shoes empty-mind
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. Frank McCourt
wisdom next generations
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next. Joseph Priestley
wisdom poverty half
Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power. Josh Billings
wisdom sleep learning
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
wisdom truth honesty
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
wisdom experience inheritance
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. Karl Kraus
wisdom watches custody
Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?) Juvenal
wisdom parent intelligence
Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. Julius Charles Hare
wisdom book reading
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. Oscar Wilde
wisdom should asks
No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be? Maria Mitchell
wisdom children men
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom. Paul Tillich
wisdom bad-day trying
When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you. Patrick Stump
wisdom pardon grows
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely. Madame de Stael
wisdom reading knowledge
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth. Gustave Flaubert
wisdom hands giving
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves. Gilbert K. Chesterton
wisdom men thinking
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.
wisdom people missing
...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.
wisdom wealth mankind
The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave. John Boyle O'Reilly
wisdom children justified
Wisdom is justified of her children. Matthew McConaughey
wisdom belief accumulation
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process. Jiddu Krishnamurti
wisdom fun book
If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.
wisdom sticks nails
The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest. Patrick Jones
wisdom believe firsts
The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes. Pam Brown
wisdom heart understanding
I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.
wisdom growing-up children
. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.
wisdom trouble mess
You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess. Leonardo da Vinci
wisdom blessing trying
When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.
wisdom ice iron
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.