Top 1200 Greatest Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

When you're around some of the greatest minds in boxing, and you don't take something from it, you're a fool. I would just sit and listen to Don King talk all day, and everyone would be like, 'He talks too much.' I would tell them, 'No, there's wisdom in these conversations.'

I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the illusions of youth: as a horseman, I was never really first-rate.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable.

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

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

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

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.

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

The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.

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

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

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

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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

Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.

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

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

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