Wisdom Quotes

• Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • God
  • Power
  • Faith

• O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Enjoy Life

• Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Job
  • Leadership
  • Patience

• Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

  

  Baden Powell
  • World
  • Fun
  • Fighting

• Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The worth of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economy. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating.

  

  Marshall Field
  • Character
  • Joy
  • Quality

• Some people are more nice than wise.

  

  William Cowper
  • People
  • Nice
  • Wise

• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Life
  • God
  • Change

• Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are a reminder of what we can achieve when we lead with strength and with wisdom, with courage and resolve and patience. America can do and has done big things when we work together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Done
  • Home

• He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Book
  • Wisdom
  • Pool

• Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Heart
  • Heaven
  • Love Is

• Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Wisdom
  • Learned
  • Forgotten

• Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Age
  • Wisdom

• I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Wisdom
  • My Life
  • Muster

• Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Power
  • Together
  • Mean

• Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

  

  Peter Conrad
  • Death
  • Faith
  • Wisdom

• The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

  

  Saadi
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Sea

• An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Character
  • Responsibility
  • Training

• Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Wisdom
  • Communicate
  • Wise Man

• The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

  

  Michel de Montaigne
  • Wisdom
  • Sign
  • Cheerfulness

• There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Translated
  • Goldfish
  • Life Is Life

• She said that all the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have always tried to keep them closed.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Life
  • She
  • History

• Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • May
  • Luck
  • Madness

• Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

  

  Sophocles
  • Words
  • Wisdom
  • Fewer

• Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

  

  Chip Conley
  • Money
  • Business
  • Political

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