Top 1200 Great Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

Those people who have got wisdom are very lucky people, but wisdom comes from no source but your own understanding of life. When a person starts thinking, "Why am I doing such and such thing ? What is the effect of my doing ? What is the result of my behaviour ? Is it good for me or bad for me ? " , then wisdom comes.

When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom. Pride without fixation is experienced as equanimity. The energy of passion when it's free of grasping is wisdom that sees all the angles.

The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

Christopher Gore is a great character, portrayed with wisdom and understanding.

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

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

In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

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

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

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

A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.

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

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

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

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

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.

Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace, and that the goodness of the Almighty God is so great that He hears those who invoke His name, and they gain salvation, became humble, acknowledging that they are ignorant, and directed their life as the life of one desiring eternal wisdom. And that is the life of the virtuous, who proceed in the desire for the other life, which is commended by the saints.

But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate behavior. . . . Individuals and countries with power need to develop wisdom and compassion, for without these attributes, there is a danger that the power will be used to oppress and exploit others. (31)

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

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

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

Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can be done to improve them. But the great bulk of the people go with the moral tide of the moment. The leader must help create that tide. Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

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

Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.

Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the two most powerful instincts that predominate in life: the instinct to survive and the instinct to multiply. Nourishment and sex give us a great sense of pleasure. Having the wisdom to satisfy both desires—for food and sex—is the art of living well. I truly believe that this wisdom lies within us all.

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

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.

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

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

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

It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.

Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.

Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.

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

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

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.

Seek wisdom. Wisdom waits to be gathered. She cannot be bartered or sold. She is a fight for the diligent. And only the diligent will find her. The lazy man - the stupid man - never even looks. Though wisdom is available to many, she is found by few. Seek wisdom. Find her, and you will find success and contentment.

It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.

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