Top 1200 Pearls Of Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

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.

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

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

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

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

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

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

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.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

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

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 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.

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

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

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

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

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.

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

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

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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

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

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counselor available 24/7? You're in luck-you already have one. Your body! Our bodies carry ancient wisdom. We literally live within a temple of intuitive and instinctive wisdom. Sometimes we pay attention and access body wisdom; but unfortunately, the aphorism "Mrs. Smith lived a short distance from her body" is sadly true for many of us.

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

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.

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.

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

Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

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

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

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

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

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

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

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

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

We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

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.

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.

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.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

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

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

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

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.