Wisdom Quotes
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.
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The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
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For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.
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If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
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High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
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It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government which has been the work exclusively of foresight and wisdom. They have all been the result of a fortunate combination of circumstances.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.
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How to get rid of the greed is the point and to get rid of the greed is that if I buy something - for whom should I buy this one, for whom should I buy? Ah, this will be all right for another friend of mine, like that. If you train your mind on these lines, not for yourself, but for others, then you'll be amazed this greed will run away and you'll have joy.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Your prayers are your light;
