Wisdom Quotes
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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Wisdom belongs in wonder.
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah
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Your prayers are your light;
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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.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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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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We've heard people say that teachers have no business going rogue and trying to select their own books, technology, and classes - and citizens have no business deciding what is worthy. We believe in teachers. We believe in the wisdom of the crowd.
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On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice.
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I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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We are wiser than we know.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Giving opens the way for receiving.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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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.
