Top 90 Quotes About Seeking Wisdom
#2. In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#3. Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.
Ann Coulter
#4. You walk to toward the center (of the labyrinth), towards the source of that order, releasing the chaos of daily life, seeking wisdom and wholeness. On the outward journey you return to the world -- metaphorically -- with the insights gained within.
Kristen Heitzmann
#5. In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
Rumi
#6. We have a very real enemy who thrives on our silence. He doesn't want us to be in fellowship, sharing our hearts and seeking wisdom on how to live lives that glorify God in spite of the darkness we feel.
Angie Smith
#8. If you want the answer - ask the question.
Lorii Myers
#10. If you do not ask questions, how can you find the answers you seek?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#11. Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning gatherer of beautiful things.
Rob Brezsny
#12. 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
#13. It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?
Aristotle.
#14. I am the seeker, the act of seeking, and the one who is sought.
Karan Bajaj
#15. 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.
Marianne Williamson
#18. The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking! He holds your hand wherever you wander.
Rumi
#20. You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.
Bill Vaughan
#21. With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.
Terri Clark
#22. When you are seeking love, from the distance, in silence, love is attracting you.
Debasish Mridha
#23. You might be anything. You might be having any organization, you might be having any position in life, you might be any great personality, makes no difference to God. What is important is that: are you seeking?
Nirmala Srivastava
#24. One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking
a detour, an error.
Hermann Hesse
#25. I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.
Abhijit Naskar
#26. People can only have power over you if you are seeking to have power over others.
Bryant McGill
#27. You don't correct a president. You merely compliment them on their wisdom in seeking your counsel.
Robert Ferrigno
#28. Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.
Hasan Of Basra
#29. Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge
- which quickly becomes outdated -
but in perpetually seeking it.
Paul Johnson
#30. May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit.
Dan Millman
#32. Don't let your ego put you in a compromising situation. Don't allow your pride to keep you from seeking the help you need. And don't give in to your fears. Stay focused.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#33. The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.
Theophile Gautier
#34. I walk into this room
All eyes on me now
But I do not know the people inside
Look straight through me these eyes
Seeking more wisdom
Than I have to give away
Dave Matthews
#36. Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
Marcel Proust
#37. Life is not for seeking destination but for creating distinction.
Debasish Mridha
#38. I see the faces that stop by my cart here. Their smiles are hollow, their eyes are hungry. The yogi's faces are different. Silent, complete. Like the mountains around them. Asking no questions, seeking no answers, just certain, as though they knew exactly who they were.
Karan Bajaj
#42. Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.
Adi Da
#43. We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#44. In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. You are a god wrapped in flesh; the divinity you've always been seeking is wrapped within.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#48. I don't want all the silver and gold of the world, Dillon said. What I'm seeking is to know. I want to understand God and I want to know His wisdom.
Pat Patrick
#49. Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.
'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom
Joseph Goldstein
#50. The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
#52. When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward
Paulo Coelho
#57. The Resurrection is most clearly needed and most clearly revealed in those communities that are constantly seeking to correct and transform the world through the wisdom and power of the Word of God made flesh in their lives and actions in history.
Megan McKenna
#58. We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we return home seeking to enact this wisdom as best we can in our daily lives.
William Cronon
#60. To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.
Will Advise
#62. The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop "seeking".
Paulo Coelho
#63. It is a self-evident truth that a person who truly prays and seeks God's wisdom in life recognizes the sovereignty of God and is committed to seeking God's wisdom in life's important choices.
Ravi Zacharias
#64. Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#65. Living as an entity under a filled with stars sky and seeking for intuition, a voice whispers from your heart, for soul is unchained from whatever pulls it down, while what she is craving for is but only Ascension towards Divine .
Katerina Kostaki
#66. Fill your heart with truth so that the wisdom of Christ will flow fluently from you like a living river moving into the seeking hearts of the thirsty.
Calvin W. Allison
#67. I never knew the wonders of nature, until I began to walk with nature.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#68. Easy to Understand, but profound wisdom for women seeking a deeper understanding of what happens to their bodies and minds as they reach the age of forty and beyond. A must read for every woman! -- Super Health Nation
Ivy Gilbert
#69. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
Enza Vita
#70. Does poem also walk through the valleys seeking tongues from dandelions?
Ymatruz
#71. She pulled away to gaze into his eyes with a startling vulnerability, desperately seeking a harbor in the storm. In his eyes lay wisdom far beyond his years, shades of ocean waters traced within lakes of finely ground cobalt."
"I am a Cowboy
Ken Alexopoulos
#72. Look to see who is truly serving the world, truly seeking to share wisdom and knowledge, insight and understanding, caring and compassion. Provide for those people, and provide grandly. Pay them the highest honor. Give them the largest amount. For these are the Bringers of the Light.
Neale Donald Walsch
#74. Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.
Khem Veasna
#75. Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Hermann Hesse
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Michael Levy
#78. The human person finds his perfection in seeking and loving what is true and good.
Pope Benedict XVI
#80. Look for the beauty you seek first within yourself.
Bryant McGill
#81. People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.
Jaeda DeWalt
#82.
Once on his feet, though, man does not stay where he is.
Frederic Gros
#84. To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#85. Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.
Andrew Lang
#87. 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.
Philip Gulley
#88. All answers that you seek can only be found within.
Abhijit Naskar
#89. Nixon to Clinton: When seeking advice from people who are more experienced than you, tell them what you plan to do first, and then ask for their reaction. Don't ask for their advice, and then ignore it. That way you save on bruised feelings.
Nancy Gibbs
#90. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
