Wisdom Quotes
A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
Robert Baden-Powell
Each man follows the path of destiny, but no two paths are alike. It seems that mine now runs into a place of evil intent, wasted wisdom, and stupidity.
Andre Norton
Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
Ezra Stiles
Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Equestrian art, perhaps more than any other, is closely related to the wisdom of life.
Alois Podhajsky
Evidently, the governing standard is to be what might be called the unfettered wisdom of a majority of this Court, revealed to an obedient people on a case-by-case basis.
Antonin Scalia
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
W. Somerset Maugham
A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot be content with less than heaven;Living, and comprehensive of all life.Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,Star-throned.
Philip James Bailey
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
Jay Griffiths
Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
Pythagoras
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
Edward Young
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
Sophocles
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale
