Quotes about wisdom
wisdom feel-good praise
We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good. Rick Warren
wisdom pardon grows
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely. Madame de Stael
wisdom experience inheritance
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. Karl Kraus
wisdom watches custody
Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?) Juvenal
wisdom parent intelligence
Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. Julius Charles Hare
wisdom book reading
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. Oscar Wilde
wisdom perseverance journey
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. Samuel Smiles
wisdom want
We all find time to do what we really want to do. William Feather
wisdom past heredity-and-environment
The past is never dead. It's not even past. William Faulkner
wisdom sadness suffering
True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness. Whittaker Chambers
wisdom knowledge intellectual
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things. Saint Augustine
wisdom writing understanding
We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.
wisdom heart should
Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?
wisdom art kings
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."
wisdom fake-people humility
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
wisdom horse athlete
...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed. Xenophanes
wisdom giving advice
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. Wilson Mizner
wisdom differences bars
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
wisdom loss men
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved. Will Rogers
wisdom trying formulas
There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
wisdom business men
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
wisdom book donkey
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back. Zora Neale Hurston
wisdom fun stupid
The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present. Zhuangzi
wisdom results investigation
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. Sara Teasdale
wisdom freedom free-will
All theory is against free will; all experience is for it. Samuel Johnson
wisdom men
Each man is led by his own liking. Virgil
wisdom witty sick
Politics make me sick William Howard Taft
wisdom country heart
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. Willa Cather
wisdom work play
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. Warren Beatty
wisdom children believe
I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing. Warren Buffett
wisdom ideas trying
The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.' You should look at the best return possible and learn to live with that. But you should not try to make your investments earn what you feel you need. It doesn't work that way. The stock doesn't know you own it.
wisdom understanding stories
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. Wayne Dyer
wisdom men doors
When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite. William Blake