Wisdom Quotes
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The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance, when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
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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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All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.
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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.
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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
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Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.
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Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.
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To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
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Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.
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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
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For this is wisdom- to love and live To take what fate or the Gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time--let go.
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The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
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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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Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
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Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
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The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transplants, but do little for the 15 million who die annually of malnutrition and related diseases. Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.
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You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage.
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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
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Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
