Top 1000 Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Habit is the nursery of errors.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.

Artemisinin... is a true gift from old Chinese medicine. But this is not the only instance in which the wisdom of Chinese medicine has borne fruit.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

Once you label me you negate me.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

If we talk about 'Groundhog Day' as a humanistic text - we only have one life, and there's no punishment or reward afterwards - then the wisdom is, just be kind because that will make you happy and the people around you happy.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Never cut what you can untie.

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

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

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Be as you wish to seem.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.