Edward Joseph Young Quotes

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps.

Edward Joseph Young

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Common Sense

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • True
  • Wisdom
  • Follow

• When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Courage

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Done
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Education
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Wisdom

• With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Water
  • Wisdom

• Critics, you have been so kind, I would not have you think me blind To all the wisdom that you preach; Yet before I strictlier run In straiter lines of chiselled speech, Give me one more hour, just one Hour to hunt the fairy gleam That flutters through this childish dream.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Dream
  • Wisdom

• Dawn, ever bearing some divine increase Of beauty, love, and wisdom round the world, Dawn, like a wild-rose in the fields of heaven Washed grey with dew, awoke, and found the barque At anchor in a little land-locked bay.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Heaven

• It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

  

  James Hillman
  • Wisdom

• I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Peace

• In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Life
  • Wisdom

• My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Time
  • Great
  • Dad

• Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Wisdom

• The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

  

  Mary Astell
  • God
  • Father
  • Eyes

• Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Wisdom

• I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

  

  Buddha
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Wisdom
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• Now they [NATO and the USA ] are sitting there, and we are talking about all these crises we would otherwise not have. You can also see this striving for an absolute triumph in the American missile defense plans.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Crisis
  • Defense
  • Strive

• In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Wisdom
  • Seed
  • Active Life