Wisdom Quotes
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Gabriel Marcel
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God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
Johannes Tauler
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey
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Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
John Lancaster Spalding
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It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
James Gleick
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar Fiedler
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
Xenophanes
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Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.
Ellen G. White
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
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He wants to dream like a young manWith the wisdom of an old man.He wants his home and security,He wants to live like a sailor at sea.Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall?You realize you just can't have it all.
Bob Seger
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Hail hero, hail hero, child of your fate Come into the kitchen don't stand by the gate And show us your wisdom before it's too late
Gordon Lightfoot
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If he didn't have the calf situation, he would have practiced, ... He played extremely well. . . . The game was very physical and he got some hits. Quarterback-wise, the odds that we can go through the year like that and keep the guy healthy. . . . I hope we can keep him healthy.
Joe Gibbs
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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.
Gautama Buddha
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Wisdom belongs in wonder.
Socrates
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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.
Landon Donovan
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Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
Bruce Lipton
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I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah
Rabia Basri
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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
Albert Einstein
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede
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There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
John C. Calhoun
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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
Arthur Conan Doyle