Top 100 Knowledge Or Wisdom Quotes
#1. Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.
Rutger Hauer
#2. I don't have enough knowledge or wisdom to say anything profound to people all over the world. But maybe a simple "I love you," as corny as it may sound, shows them that I am willing to be compassionate, generous, and peaceful with them.
Richard Brancatisano
#3. If we probe what's behind our assumptions, what we find isn't knowledge or wisdom. It's fear. We're afraid that other people's ideas will make us look less than. We're afraid that if we make a change, a product won't come in on time.
Biz Stone
#4. If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters.
Henry Miller
#5. It may be an information age, but ... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.
Stephanie Mills
#6. Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies ...
Plato
#7. The wise never confuse information or data, however prodigious or cleverly deployed, with comprehensive knowledge or wisdom ... Be wise.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#8. In West African and Caribbean folklores the role falls to Anansi, a spider who sometimes imparts knowledge or wisdom - and sometimes casts doubt or seeds confusion. Eshu,
Gabriella Coleman
#9. Never lose temper or get angry at a person who deserves your love. Remember everyone is craving for and deserves your love.
Debasish Mridha
#10. There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#13. Never think of the riches of wisdom and knowledge hidden in Jesus as treasures without a key, or of your way as a path without a light. Jesus, your wisdom, is guiding you in the right way, even when you do not see it.
Andrew Murray
#14. All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.
Idries Shah
#15. Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.
Atul Gawande
#16. To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
Gautama Buddha
#17. Our job is not to find the peace or create peace, but to find and eliminate all the obstacles on the way to the peace.
Debasish Mridha
#18. If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Maimonides
#19. I love you, that is important to me. You love me or not its your matter. Remember I can control only myself, not you at all.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Well, sounding wise wasn't difficult. It was a lot easier than being intelligent, actually, since you didn't have to say anything surprising or come up with any new insights. You just let your brain's pattern-matching software complete the cliche, using whatever Deep Wisdom you'd stored previously.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#21. A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
Robert Southey
#22. Focus on joy, not on hurt or fear.
The earth will dance, peace to share.
Debasish Mridha
#23. When I am thinking of love or express love, I am happy, when I am happy, I have more power to love.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Let me fly with the wings of love or let me drown and die in the love.
Debasish Mridha
#26. The past can't touch you or call you back; you are going far away from it with gratitude and wisdom to learn from the future.
Debasish Mridha
#27. What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind's reflection.
Debasish Mridha
#28. When happiness depends on a situation or creation, it is not happiness; it is the joy of action.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God's unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.
L. Tom Perry
#30. Life is about creating your own world, your own joy.
Life is not about living in someone else's world or playing with someone else's toy.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Women don't have wisdom or knowledge in political things.
James Clavell
#32. The ruach blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but cannot tell from where it comes or where it goes. God is He, He is Ruach (Spirit) and Ruach is speaking to our ruach (spirit) revealing great mysteries, knowledge, wisdom, understanding and joy.
Sipporah Joseph
#34. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.
Idries Shah
#35. Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.
Thomas A Kempis
#36. Richness is not in wealth or earning capability, but it is in your perception.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Lack of success can be attributed to one of two things: You don't know what to do, or you know what to do and you're not doing it.
Rob Liano
#38. You can enjoy the journey of life in two ways: you could be the passenger or the driver of life.
Debasish Mridha
#39. If you have a drop of violence or anger in your mind, it can ignite a candle and be the source of violence, so be kind.
Debasish Mridha
#40. A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#41. Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that is sometimes just bubbly and euphoric or just very still and profound.
Frederick Lenz
#42. Either you will drive your life toward success, or life will drive you into the ditch.
Debasish Mridha
#43. To find out how much we can do or how far we can go, we have to challenge ourselves constantly.
Debasish Mridha
#44. In the universe, nothing is either beautiful or ugly, but our perception and thinking makes it so.
Debasish Mridha
#45. When question arise
Dream or not to dream
Always dream.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Love is the language of the heart. It can feel the movements of every atom and understand every language spoken or unspoken.
Debasish Mridha
#48. The value of your life will not be judge by the value of your wealth or splendor, but by the value you added to others life.
Debasish Mridha
#49. There is no right or wrong, there is only event. We see them with right mindset or wrong mindset.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.
Idries Shah
#51. Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.
Anne Lamott
#52. Find the joy and peace in and around you. It is a choice not a condition or destination.
Debasish Mridha
#53. The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.
Idries Shah
#54. A philosopher has the moderate love for wisdom and the courage to act according to wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge about the Good or the right relations between all that exists. Wherein
Plato
#55. In those days of darkness don't despair or fear,
brighten the light of hope and desires with care.
Debasish Mridha
#56. True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#57. You may not always change your situation but you can always change your perception. For better or worse, it will change the situation.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.
Idries Shah
#59. Man has only wisdumb to gain knowledge but God alone has wisdom, for he possesses all knowledge past, present and future and there is not one iota of knowledge that he does not possess or will not possess.
C.R. Lord
#60. Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medals
and the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me.
Jasper Fforde
#61. There is no beast or beauty.
There is no task or duty.
There is only you.
Debasish Mridha
#62. If you play with dirt, no matter if you win or lose, either way you will get dirty.
Debasish Mridha
#63. The only way to find out how far you can trust a person is by wholeheartedly trusting him or her.
Debasish Mridha
#64. My inner guidance is there for me to call on anytime I need or want extra clarity, wisdom, knowledge, support, creative inspiration, love, or companionship.
Shakti Gawain
#65. Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.
Idries Shah
#66. God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him.
Monica Johnson
#67. Imagination is more powerful than money or hydrogen bomb.
Debasish Mridha
#68. The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty ... Only a moral revolution
not a social or a political revolution
only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.
Simone De Beauvoir
#69. Given the fact that intuition is about receiving information and knowledge, something that every human being frequently experiences, the choice becomes ours as to whether or not we honor the incoming information we receive.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#70. Love is the only language that everyone understands without any word or interpretation.
Debasish Mridha
#71. ...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.
Socrates
#72. It's never too late to love and live again.
Without love in life, nothing to lose or gain.
Debasish Mridha
#73. The universe never complains.
When you're wrong or right,
She always loves and cares,
She always gives and shares.
When you get lost she becomes the light,
Helps you to find what is right.
But she never forgets
To show you the light.
Debasish Mridha
#74. When we don't understand, like, or agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we cannot understand His wisdom and knowledge
Elizabeth George
#75. A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.
Adedayo Kingjerry
#76. You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.
Idries Shah
#77. There is no stress, anxiety or fear; it's our mind's game with our heart to dare.
Change your perception and don't let your mind wander.
Debasish Mridha
#78. I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.
Ilyas Kassam
#79. There is no good day or a bad day, but our perception makes it so.
Debasish Mridha
#80. Happiness resides in your mind. Never infect your mind with negative thoughts or happiness will fly away.
Debasish Mridha
#82. My burning question is this: what do I really want from life? Love, happiness, success, or all three?
Debasish Mridha
#83. The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.
Mary Russell Mitford
#85. People can hate you or curse you, but if you love, then nothing can touch you.
Debasish Mridha
#86. True wisdom can never find fault or a person at fault.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Love is like gravity. You can't see it, touch it, or even feel it, but it surrounds you all the time. If love is not there you may not survive a day or a month.
Debasish Mridha
#88. Burn worldly love,
rub the ashes and make ink of it,
make the heart the pen,
the intellect the writer,
write that which has no end or limit.
Guru Nanak
#90. Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.
David Deida
#91. One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius.
Abhijit Naskar
#92. Love is always true and eternal.
Love can't be untrue or occasional.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Whatever we think or do,
whenever we express love for you.
It will stay, will never go away.
It will touch your heart, when we go on our way.
Debasish Mridha
#94. Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than any and all others, before them or after them, or they have truly stated astonishing things which they saw and heard.
Simon Greenleaf
#95. Measure of life is not by the wealth or splendor but by the love you have given away.
Debasish Mridha
#96. We all have to go. Let us create something which will stay longer or forever.
Debasish Mridha
#98. Don't accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first.
Debasish Mridha
#99. I never can love you deep enough or long enough to satisfy me.
Debasish Mridha
#100. Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
J.C. Ryle