Wisdom Quotes
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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.
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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.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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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.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
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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.
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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.
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The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.
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Wisdom married to immortal verse.
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True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
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One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.
