Wisdom Quotes
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I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.
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Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
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I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and 'wisdom' and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.
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With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
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At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.
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I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
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Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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We have assembled inside this ancient & insane theatre To propagate our lust for life & flee the swarming wisdom of the streets
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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
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The beginning of wisdom is to admit to being inept. We’re all a bit slow. We have our moments, but in the end, we have to resort to bumbling through. It is what makes conviction so egregious.
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A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
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No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
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Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
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Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
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A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
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Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
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When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.
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Perhaps we should warn you that there is one thing you won’t read, and that is a pat answer for the problems of life. We don’t pretend to make this a spiritual or psychological patent-medicine chest where one can come and get a pill of wisdom, to be swallowed like an aspirin, to banish the headaches of our times.
