Wisdom Quotes
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
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Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
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I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
