Wisdom Quotes
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You must have patience with others because, if you do not have patience, your sincerity will start doubting itself. So you must have patience and to get patience you must know what you have been so far and where are you. When you will know what you were, you will have patience with others, tremendous patience. And by having patience with others, your sincerity will be all the time complete. By your sincerity, you will be completely integrated.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in The Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable.
Harold Bloom
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.
Socrates
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in lifeBut needs it, and may learn.
Philip James Bailey
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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
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Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.
Thomas Aquinas
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The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
Hermann Hesse
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If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
Jay Griffiths
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He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.
Jack London
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You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.
Nirmala Srivastava
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If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.
David Jeremiah
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A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.
William Francis Buckley
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.
Edward Joseph Young
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Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.
Mark Canton
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Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
Confucius
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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
John Locke Nazareth
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats
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I interpreted all you did as weakness - but I should have known that it was wisdom and strength, freely shared with all of us, even the ones who don't deserve it.
Orson Scott Card
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Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.
Bill Vaughan
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The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
Oliver Goldsmith
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We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.
Baden Powell
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Equestrian art, perhaps more than any other, is closely related to the wisdom of life.
Alois Podhajsky
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We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.
William Reddington Hewlett