Wisdom Quotes
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You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
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... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
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Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.
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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
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Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
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It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?
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For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.
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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
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There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.
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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.
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Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
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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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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days
