Wisdom Quotes

• We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.

  

  Baden Powell
  • Wisdom
  • Attitude
  • Boys

• All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Earth
  • Word

• Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • May

• 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.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Mountain
  • Vigilance

• They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

  

  William Cowper
  • Truth
  • Weed
  • Honey

• Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • World
  • Men
  • Wisdom

• Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• Not by wisdom do they poets make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

  

  Socrates
  • Nature
  • Inspiration
  • Gift

• 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.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Time
  • Live
  • May

• Kindness is wisdom. There is none in lifeBut needs it, and may learn.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Kindness

• If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Knowledge
  • Dignity
  • Examination

• We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Experience
  • Respect
  • Stop

• 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

• 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.

  

  Socrates
  • Trust
  • Memory
  • Invention

• We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups.

  

  Louis B. Rosenberg
  • Knowledge
  • Technology
  • Intuition

• When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

  

  Plato
  • Harmony
  • True Man
  • Discoursing

• Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Important
  • Wealth
  • Gain

• Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

  

  Umar
  • Life
  • Forever
  • Islamic

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happiness
  • Virtue
  • Possesses

• To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Heart
  • Patience
  • Greatness

• We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Wisdom
  • Fart
  • Puffed up

• But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.

  

  Chapman Cohen
  • God
  • Planned
  • Marvel

• Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

  

  Democritus
  • Soul
  • Wisdom

• Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

  

  Sophocles
  • Words
  • Wisdom
  • Fewer

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