Top 1200 Wise Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

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

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

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.

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

Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise. and knowledgeable people are sad, they are bound to be sad because all their knowledge is borrowed. There can be no song in it.

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

There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.

A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!

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

Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

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

The wise are wise only because they love.

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

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid the cause of truth and righteousness, and that He in whose name they are written may, of His mercy, "Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in His wisdom make me wise."

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

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

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.

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

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

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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.

We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.

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.

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.

If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

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.

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

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.

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

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

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

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

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

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

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

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.