Top 1200 Ancient Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

My mother inculcated wisdom in us, and I want to preserve her wisdom in writing.

The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But today I want to present it as something different again, and even more intriguing. The DNA in you is a coded description of ancient worlds in which your ancestors lived. DNA is the wisdom out of the old days, and I mean very old days indeed.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going.

Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.

Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too, for the Tiwis, who dissolve the distinction between themselves and the cosmos. In quantum physics, subatomic particles influence each other from a distance, and this tallies with the aboriginal view, in which people, animals, rocks, and trees all weave together in the same interwoven fabric.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom can be found and held onto...but wisdom can never be purchased. It is not for sale.

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. It has engaged the industry and wisdom of ancient and modern geometers to such an extent that it would be superfluous to discuss the problem at length. ... Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.

Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.

It may seem absurd to believe that a 'primitive' culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our search for a future that works keeps spiraling back to an ancient connection between ourselves and the earth, an interconnectedness that ancient cultures have never abandoned.

So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".

The Ancient One, as you know, is the master, is the Sorcerer Supreme, and [Doctor] Strange comes to learn how to heal himself and The Ancient One has got the knowledge. And so what you're seeing today is a part of the whole training section when he's learning the moves and digging deep. So it's all about that, it's all about trying to push him to get there.

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content.

Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most important challenge of our times.

The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

I'm always interested in, I would say, not only sharing my wisdom, but acquiring other people's wisdom as well.