Top 1200 Conventional Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

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.

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

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

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.

I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

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

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

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

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

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

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

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.

A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It imparts a willingness to challenge prevailing opinion through both words and deeds. Equally important, it encourages a certain set of attitudes in listeners, one that gives a respectful hearing to those who do not embrace the conventional wisdom. In a culture of free speech, the attitude of listeners is no less important than that of speakers.

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

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

Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse.

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

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

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

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

I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.

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

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

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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

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

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True beauty grips your gut and squeezes your lungs, and makes you see with utmost clarity exactly what is before you. True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight.

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

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

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

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

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.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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