Quotes About Worldly Wisdom

#1. I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#2. How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

Teresa Of Avila

#3. 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.

John Woolman

#4. Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

Charles Caleb Colton

#5. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

John Maynard Keynes

#6. Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

Charlie Munger

#7. If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.

Christian Scriver

#8. In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

Willis Regier

#9. All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.

Soren Kierkegaard

#11. It is wisdom, worldly wisdom, to administer even health to oneself for a long time in small doses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

John Buchan

#13. Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

Jonathan Raban

#14. Be a man with living principles within; never bow to the varying customs of worldly wisdom.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#16. A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business

Charlie Munger

#17. Worldly Wisdom
Do not stay in the field!
Nor climb out of sight.
The best view of the world
Is from a medium height.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

Ouida

#19. Our worldly wisdom has made us calloused and hard. Our natural wisdom, as the Scriptures teach, comes not from God, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.

Billy Graham

#20. If someone wants to give you money, whatever the source, you should take it. Every religious-historical authority agrees about that.

Antal Szerb

#21. Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#22. So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

Ramakrishna

#23. So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.

Nirmala Srivastava

#24. You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?

Nirmala Srivastava

#25. Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart

Uthman Ibn Affan

#26. The popular contemporary wisdom that a liberal arts education is outmoded is true only to the extent that social equality, liberty, and worldly development of mind and character are outmoded and have been displaced by another set of metrics: income streams, profitability, technological innovation.

Wendy Brown

#27. Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#28. Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life.

Vincent De Paul

#29. Do not use worldly methods or apply human force to prevent sin

Sunday Adelaja

#30. He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.

Soroosh Shahrivar

#31. While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.

Ibn Arabi

#32. The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#33. 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

#34. Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.

Uthman Ibn Affan

#35. The more one understands the world ... the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood. Dakpo to Shan

Eliot Pattison

#36. This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

William Law

#37. A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.

Nichiren

#38. Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib