Wisdom Quotes
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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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.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
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When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
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The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.
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Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.
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Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.
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The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in lifeBut needs it, and may learn.
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Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
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Scars are wisdom in disguise.
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Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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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.
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You have to get something that is beyond, something special, something unique that happens to you, by which you become one with the whole. This is what should be asked for, not for all other things that people ask for. Isn't it? That's the truth. You have to achieve it, to be in your collective consciousness.
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If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
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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.
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
