Wisdom Quotes
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If elected Speaker, I promise you that we will have the courage to lead the fight for our conservative principles and make our case to the American people. But we will also have the wisdom to listen to our constituents and each other so that we always move forward together.
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Great strength of body is the gift of nature; But to be able to advise whate'er Is most expedient for one's country's good, Is the peculiar work of sense and wisdom.
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If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
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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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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Scars are wisdom in disguise.
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future.
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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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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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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.
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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
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All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.
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For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.
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Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.
