Wisdom Quotes
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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 wisdom of taking risks early applies to most aspects of life, whether it be career choices, investments, or dating.
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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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Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.
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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
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The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
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The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.
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It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established - that was always the obligatory verb: established - before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.
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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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You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.
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How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.
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To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
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Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.
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In idle wishes fools supinely stay;Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
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Collective wisdom depends on conversation and is most powerfully felt in the silences that arise within those conversations.
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Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
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The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
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Structures of lines, surfaces, forms, colours. They try to approach the eternal, the inexpressible above men. They are a denial of human egotism. They are the hatred of human immodesty, the hatred of images, of paintings.. Wisdom is the feeling for the coming reality, the mystical, the definite indefinite, the greatest definite.
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Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in The Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable.
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Man is aware; he perceives and interprets the world around him. When he uses logic as a tool for interpretation, it becomes science; when he uses feelings for interpretation, it becomes poetry; when he takes a longer view of his observations, it becomes wisdom.
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Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.
