Wisdom Quotes - Page 186

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Kālāmas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, not by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, not by the idea: 'this is our teacher'. But, O Kālāmas, when you know for yourself that certain things are unwholesome, and wrong, and bad, then give them up... And when you know for yourself that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

Sophocles

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. Whenever despair wins, it is the natural way. Whenever love wins, it is a moment of grace. When love is victorious and defeats despair completely, you've reached the path of grace.

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

Wallace Stevens

Wisdom comes from reflection.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

Anne Holm

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.

But Johannes had said, "Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David.

Anne Holm

A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.

Adedayo kingjerry

Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.

We don't notice things change. We know that things change, we've been told since childhood that things change, we've witnessed things change ourselves many a time, and yet we're still utterly incapable of noticing the moment that change comes--or we search for change in all the wrong places.

Arkady Strugatsky

Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self.

For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘great moments of life,’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; …

Maurice Maeterlinck

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

We can't just restrict ourselves to what we know, because we are talking about the unknown.

Belsebuub

Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right. Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong.

Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.

Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.

Epictetus

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

You were not just blessed for yourself,your were blessed to be a blessing toothers.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The greatest solution of all is to live and work in partnership with yourself, your family and friends, your work and community, your nation, your world, nature, and spirit.

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

Voltaire

I don't know what to say to fill the silence. I don't know how to fix this. It seems wrong to leave him, but I have to. There's no compromise, no alternative. Things just weren't meant to be, which seems like a pansy-ass thing to say, until it happens to you.

H.M. Ward

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty!

I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Randall Jarrell

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Don't talk about love, But speak out of love cause most of the liars are only perfect of talking about nothing but passion & don't talk about justice, But speak out of justice cause most of the oppressors are only perfect of talking about nothing but rightness.

Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters.Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in their hearts.

Toba Beta

No shortcut to wisdom.No tollways to be wise.

Toba Beta

Do not ever go out of yourself because you will get lost even from your life.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

Man will never reach the higher wisdom,If he can't yet accept the pain of change.

Toba Beta

. . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become eclipsed and the world below is as dead and remote and without interest as if it were glazed with ice.

James Lee Burke

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

Anne Holm

Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom.

If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us.

Vulnerability really means to be strong and secure enough within yourself that you are able to walk outside without your armor on. You are able to show up in life as just you. That is genuine strength and courage. Armor may look tough, but all it does is mask insecurity and fear.

Alaric Hutchinson

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

Relationships are steppingstones for the evolution of our consciousness. Each interaction we have, be it one of joy or contrast, allows us to learn more about who we are and what we want in this lifetime. They bring us into greater alignment…as long as we continue to move forward and do not get attached to hurt, anger, or being a victim.

Alaric Hutchinson

The possibility of the dream gives strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it.

Alaric Hutchinson

Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht weißt. Das ist Wissen.

Confucius

A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence.

Ralph Alfred Habas

The friend is a human EdenBut Eden is so easily lostWhen you choose, choose wiselyBefore you share, count the cost

Genieve Dawkins

No one is ever going to give you something that they're too afraid to even claim for themselves. People don't know themselves, so they don't like to see other people figure it out and live their lives in ways that they themselves cannot. So they try to box you in, and limit you, so they don't feel inadequate. But you don't need their approval- the only person who ever, ever limits you is yourself.

Danielle Jordan

The brillant person who does not take heed is the same as the ignorant who does not know.

Debra E. Johnson

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.

Robertson Davies

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go?" Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom.

You might say that you've finally earned the wisdom.Actually, it's the wisdom that has found and formed you.

Toba Beta

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