Wisdom Quotes
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Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
Bias of Priene
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The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
Baden Powell
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Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business.
Isabelle Kocher
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Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.
Baden Powell
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Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.
Burton Malkiel
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer
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It's such a frustration when you see in the name of religion, in the name of God, what people are doing is something we never expected. The religion has to be Spirit-oriented, but it is only power-oriented or money-oriented. In the original scriptures, or we can say in the origin of this religion was the truth. And all these religions bloom on the same play of spirituality like beautiful flowers at different times, but people have plucked it and now they are fighting with the dead flowers.
Nirmala Srivastava
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As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.
Anna Halprin
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To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
Emil Cioran
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
Blaise Pascal
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. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.
Lao Tzu
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There is no need to condemn yourself in any way, or to elate yourself, but just be your Spirit. The best way to be with your Spirit is to forgive.
Nirmala Srivastava
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The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind....Attitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
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Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.
Geronimo
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Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
C. S. Lewis
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It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.
Esther Smith
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This truly is the God of lesser glory, because of his lesser knowledge, lesser wisdom, lesser discernment, lesser ability, lesser reliability, and lesser guidance.
Bruce A. Ware
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The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.
Carolyn Hax
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Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.
Margaret Mitchell
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Mercy is not giving someone what they deserve. Grace is giving someone what they don't deserve. Extend God's wisdom in your relationships.
Andrew Wommack
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To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.
Elizabeth Towne