Wisdom Quotes
-
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
-
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
-
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
-
The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
-
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
-
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
-
Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
-
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
-
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
-
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
-
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
-
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
-
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
-
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
-
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
-
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
-
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
-
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
-
True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
-
When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.
-
Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.
-
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
-
So I say to you, citizens of the last Arab country, this is a time for courage, for unity, for wisdom, for determination, to face these enemies with the dignity your president has shown, and I believe, God willing, we will prevail and triumph, wa-salam aleikum.
