Wisdom Quotes
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn
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Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
Hermann Hesse
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You can do marvels and miracles if you have developed the understanding of love.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Wisdom is knowing when to share your wisdom and when to just keep quiet.
Katrina Mayer
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No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
James Cook
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When you realize yourself as completely empty and devoid of all form... this is wisdom, When you realize yourself as the fullness of love overflowing itself without object... this is bliss, And when you are aware of yourself incarnate in the appearance of form... this is leela.
Eli Jaxon-Bear
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The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.
Chris Prentiss
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As scientists you must keep your minds open. There is no use having blind faith in Me, in Sahaja Yoga, in anything because blindness will never give you reality. But you should be open like scientists are and whatever hypothesis I am putting before you, you have to feel it on your central nervous system.
Nirmala Srivastava
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In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps.
Edward Joseph Young
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To trust yourself is to trust Silence. To trust your own heart is to trust the wisdom that is radiating and shining. All the thoughts, feelings, desires, and fears are just a superimposition that is called 'myself.' When all that disappears, for at least a moment, your Self shines forth. Radiantly, clear, and empty. Needing nothing, nourished, and overflowing.
Eli Jaxon-Bear
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.
Euripides
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Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
Heraclitus
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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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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Steven Levitt
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Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.
Jonathan Swift
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Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.
Abu Dhar al-Ghifari
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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
Ann Radcliffe
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I love being my age. I love getting older. What you lose in looks, you gain in wisdom. I might not be as physically beautiful on the outside today, but I'm much more beautiful on the inside. True beauty comes from inside.
Delvene Delaney
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You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.
Alison Croggon
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
Anthony Trollope
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We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
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An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
Evan Esar