Wisdom Quotes
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By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.
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As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!
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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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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.
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Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
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Divinity cannot be perceived through your brain, unless and until this light of your spirit shines into it.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.
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Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.
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The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
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When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.
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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 truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
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To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
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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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A judge's role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.
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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.
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There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
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The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence, this is conditional upon refinement which in turn is dependent upon hearts which are detached and pure. As to its moderation, this hath to be combined with tact and wisdom as prescribed in the Holy Scriptures and Tablets.
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We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
