Wisdom Quotes
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Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
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There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
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It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
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Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.
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If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.
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It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government which has been the work exclusively of foresight and wisdom. They have all been the result of a fortunate combination of circumstances.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.
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You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success.
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
