Wisdom Quotes
-
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
-
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
-
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
-
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
-
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
-
The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
-
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
-
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
-
In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path.
-
I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature.
-
The wisdom of our ancestors.
-
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
-
I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.
-
I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.
-
Man in his madness doesn't realize that God has made him from amoeba to this stage for some purpose. There is a big purpose behind it. And the purpose is that now you have to know your Spirit, by which you enter into the Kingdom of God. You have to enter into the Kingdom of God. How? What is your passport? Is your Spirit. Because when the Spirit starts shining within you, you start transforming. You start transforming into a new being - into a new personality with a new awareness and you are a different person. Your priorities change.
-
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
-
We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
-
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
-
Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
-
Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
-
The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest, and your career stalls, barring an act of God or Oprah.
-
Every education minister today has a chance of introducing in his education today some simple technique, some simple natural insights into the total reality of life, which the physical sciences have explored in terms of 'Unified Field', which the ancient Vedic wisdom has located in the Self referral consciousness of everyone.
-
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
-
Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within.
