Wisdom Quotes
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Wisdom comes from reflection.
Deborah Day
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Because we do not understand all the circumstances surrounding someone's suicide, the level of the person's accountability, and the penalty that the Lord, in his infinite love and wisdom, may see fit to inflict upon the person, we must avoid judgment. Regardless of those circumstances and the Lord's divinely imposed punishment, followers of Christ are to be loving and compassionate to those who are hurt by the act of suicide.
Brent L. Top
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
John Maynard Keynes
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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
Ann Radcliffe
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How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness, you've done your job because that's the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental.
Nirmala Srivastava
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No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
James Cook
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann Hesse
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Grant me the patience with changes that take time, appreciation of all that I have, tolerance of those with different struggles, and the strength to get up and try again, one day at a time.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
Homer
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Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.
Bo Lozoff
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When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
John Lennon
The Beatles
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Knowledge and increase of enduring joy
From the great Nature that exists in works
Of mighty Poets.
William Wordsworth