Wisdom Quotes

It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: 'All the time you're looking left and right at other people, you're neglecting what's in front of you.If you focus on looking straight ahead, you can take the odd glance at the future.' He's got a way of saying things sometimes that just puts everything into perspective.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

Anthony de Mello

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Because that happened to me when I was little, this is how I will now treat other people"; "Because so and so beat me up and hurt me a long time ago, that gives me the right to treat people the way I treat them, today"; "Because life was hard on me, life should be hard on everyone else around me"— does this sound/ look familiar? It's called victim mentality. When people choose to be the direct product of everything that happened to them, the direct product of every single pair of hands that hurt them. And the world, to these people, must bend over backwards in order to accommodate their wounds. Some people don't want to be loved; they just want to make the world pay.

The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce.

... because one kingdom goes to war with another, it does not mean all citizens of that kingdom agree with it. It is not always they have a choice.

Time vanquishes even the strongest of strongholds.

Brains will always conquer brawn, in the end. The soldiers can flex their muscles all they want, but the well-thought-out tactics of the generals are what win the war.

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Over done forgotten gone now my troubles will move on.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

Charles Eisenstein

Stop blaming and start being!

...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

Processed data is information.Processed information is knowledgeProcessed knowledge is Wisdom.

Ankala V Subbarao

You never turn away family, no matter how f***ed up they are.

Ronald Velesovsky

Don't hold on too long;to which does not belong, Don't shed a tear; for all the pain that's gone,Create a new;from the wisdom of the past, Open your heart wider, as storms do not last.

Something wonderful has happened to me. I was carried up into the seventh heaven. There all the gods sat assembled. By special grace I was granted the favor of a wish. "Will you," said Mercury, "have youth, or beauty, or power, or a long life, or the most beautiful maiden, or any of the other glories we have in the chest? Choose, but only one thing." For a moment I was at a loss. Then I addressed myself to the gods as follows: "Most honorable contemporaries, I choose this one thing, that I may always have the laugh on my side." Not one of the gods said a word, on the contrary, they all began to laugh. Hence, I concluded that my request was granted, and found that the gods knew how to express themselves with great taste; for it would hardly have been suitable for them to answer gravely: "It is granted thee".

Søren Kierkegaard

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.

Alfred

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Bible

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Baltasar Gracián

My father used to say: Son if you are not bright you've got to be methodical (defusing argument when challenged and proved right)

Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom his wisdom endures. And everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds his wisdom does not endure.

Through wisdom a house is built and through understanding it is established.

Bible

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracián

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Anonymous

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

Philippe Quinault

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

A wise man sees as much as he ought not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.

George Santayana

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stovelid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.

Alexandre Dumas

It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.

Rent Coty

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Adlai Stevenson

Deliberate often - decide once.

A wise man to accomplish his end may even carry his foe on his shoulder.

Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

James Russell Lowell

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Brigitte Bardot

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

Euripides

Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility.

Anonymous

Night is the mother of counsels.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Tobias Smollett

The more specific you are the more general it'll be.

The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

Oscar Hammerstein

The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

James Russell Lowell

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22 which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.

1 2 3 … 209 Next