Top 1200 Wisdom And Experience Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

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

The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist's research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it's even less - closer to a tenth of a percent.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.

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

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

Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think it's taken me this long to really trust myself, but now I do, I really do. Thanks to my experience and wisdom, I've learned not to be so naive and trusting. Today I question everything and listen to my instincts.

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

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

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

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

The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are the gathered wisdom of the race. They are renewed in time of conflict and danger.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Just learn from the guys who have already done it well. You need a mentor, a seasoned coach who is willing to share his wisdom and experience with you. Ask someone who has already been successful to guide you.

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.

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

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

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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.

To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.

The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.

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

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

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

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

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.