Top 1200 Political Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

It's become glib political conventional wisdom in Washington that a massive spending plan will provide a parachute rescue for a cliff-diving economy - landing it safely and with strong enough legs to move toward a healthy future.

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

Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct, that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

In the 00s, it was often claimed that political apathy had replaced political participation. Membership of political parties and electoral turnout were both said to be in irreversible decline.

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

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

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?

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community.

Developing wisdom in community is to constantly learn and relearn that expedience in the short term - whether for efficiency or profitability - can lead to disasters in the long term in financial, ecological, political, social, and spiritual spheres.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

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.

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

I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.

Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

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.

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

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.

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

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

If the first year of the Trump administration has made anything clear, it's that experience, knowledge, education and political wisdom matter tremendously. Governing is something else entirely from campaigning. And perhaps, most important, celebrities do not make excellent heads of state.

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

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

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

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

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.

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

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

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