Quotes about wisdom
wisdom latin america
ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble. Ambrose Bierce
wisdom book doubt
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.
wisdom disappointment light
OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
wisdom political crowds
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
wisdom aphorism
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.
wisdom teeth weak
ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.
wisdom experience recognise-you
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
wisdom clever lying
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
wisdom hair understanding
One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding. Alice Walker
wisdom confused church
You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.
wisdom self wish
I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this. Anne Lamott
wisdom peace jobs
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. Albert Camus
wisdom use stores
Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage. Amelia Earhart
wisdom strong men
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. Anna Quindlen
wisdom jesus prayer
So live for the kingdom of God. Seek to bring glory to Jesus Christ and the Lord will use you. It is my prayer, my constant and daily prayer, that God would keep me useable. Chuck Smith
wisdom pain humorous
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. Alfred de Musset
wisdom want looks
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be. Alfred Hitchcock
wisdom want what-you-want
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want. Andy Stanley
wisdom suffering intelligence
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations. Andre Gide
wisdom enthusiasm literature
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. Anatole France
wisdom math men
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
wisdom reality littles
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
wisdom understanding intimacy
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love. Anais Nin
wisdom data thought-provoking
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. Alvin Toffler
wisdom needs process
Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it. Andrew Zuckerman
wisdom filth goodness
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves. William Shakespeare
wisdom character men
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
wisdom failure learning
That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning. Richard Bach
wisdom delight pleasure
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love. Robert Frost
wisdom school sunday
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School. Robert Fulghum
wisdom watches hours
Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes
wisdom work way
The only way round is through.
wisdom men indispensable
A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable. Richard E. Byrd