Quotes about wisdom
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
wisdom eagles moles
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?
wisdom smart teaching
To generalize is to be an idiot.
wisdom time artist
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
wisdom knowledge thought-provoking
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
wisdom witty humorous
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Wernher von Braun
wisdom confused long
I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. Wallis Simpson
wisdom knowing understanding
Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept. Wallace Stegner
wisdom real school
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. Samuel Smiles
wisdom nature book
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
wisdom appreciate firsts
The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have. Samuel Richardson
wisdom lag too-much
Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise. William Greider
wisdom men want
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control. William Graham Sumner
wisdom intellect
You have a dizzying intellect. William Goldman
wisdom art prayer
The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve. Wilferd Peterson
wisdom believe sacrifice
Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. Voltaire
wisdom philosopher lovers
Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
wisdom freedom fool
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
wisdom lonely men
Virtuous men alone possess friends.
wisdom clever men
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
wisdom humble pride
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. William Tecumseh Sherman
wisdom littles mankind
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. William Ralph Inge
wisdom men consent
No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man. William Lloyd Garrison
wisdom philosophy imagination
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. William Butler Yeats
wisdom art fate
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
wisdom butterfly optimism
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey....
wisdom ignorant youth
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.
wisdom oil dancing
Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?
wisdom book thinking
Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until after the thought of it happened in someone's mind. Someone first had to collect it from space, or recollect it from its electrical pattern to which he (or she) had been attuned. The book is but a record of what has already happened. Walter Russell
wisdom jealous secret
You may command Nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. You cannot intelligently obey that which you do not comprehend. Therefore I also say, ask of Nature that you may be one with her and she will whisper her secrets to you to the extent in which you are prepared to listen. Seek to be alone much to commune with Nature and be thus inspired by her mighty whisperings within your consciousness. Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her.
wisdom men two
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. Walter Savage Landor
wisdom lasting-happiness knowing
Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.