Wisdom Quotes
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Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
Madame de Stael
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Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.
Charlene Spretnak
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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis Theroux
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Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.
Abraham ibn Ezra
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
Socrates
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In the midst of possible world war, of wholesale destruction, I find my only question this: are there enough people now who believe? Is there time enough left for the wise to act? It is a contest between ignorance and death, or wisdom and life. My faith in humanity stands firm.
Pearl S. Buck
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You should get completely detached about everything and you will enjoy, just enjoy. But in that also, one has to judge. Are you really enjoying or are you just making a drama out of it? Try to be sincere. Purity is brought forth by sincerity. If you are not sincere to yourself and to others, you cannot be pure.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
Ernest Hemingway
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
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I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
Alex Grey
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Sahasrara is the throne for the Spirit and the bigger is the king, the bigger is the throne. The way you treat your Spirit is expressed through the way you have your Sahasrara.
Nirmala Srivastava
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When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.
Nirmala Srivastava
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True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.
Lao Tzu
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Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.
Napoleon Hill
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato the Elder
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He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.
Publilius Syrus
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And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.
Dalai Lama
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Rollo May
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True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Truthful speech provides, in the sphere of interpersonal communication, a parallel to wisdom in the sphere of private understanding.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
Josh Billings
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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!
Friedrich Nietzsche