Top 1200 Worldly Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God as a byproduct of right decisions, godly reactions, and the application of spiritual principles to daily circumstances.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.

O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes.

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368) (Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.

There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

The worldly fountain does not breed spiritual depth.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king

Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.

The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice.

Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.

O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.

The wisdom is your glory. By wisdom you will be fair to yourself and fair to others.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is a way of being.

There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.

The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.

I think people get confused about who Merlin is. It's not his age that makes him: it's wisdom, and wisdom is not necessarily linked to age. Definitely not in the same way in the world of 'Once Upon a Time.'

The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner.

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

I have become worldly-wise and mature after participating in 'Bigg Boss.'

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

I don't want to do worldly cinema: 'Hold your breath, this is art.'

Wisdom you don't get in colleges, schools, universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you a complete idea as to what is right and what is wrong.

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

A knowing of what needs to be done or what needs to be said or what needs to happen at any given time. That is wisdom and wisdom does not come from the accumulation of knowledge.

The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that "love your enemy" is to some a principle no one can ever live by.

I'm not doing 'Once' to prove that I'm worldly or cultured. I just love the role.

We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding.

Coming into Congress, I didn't really have much of a worldly experience.

I am a Sufi guy, so fame is maya for me, a worldly illusion.

There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.

Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.