Top 100 What Is Wisdom Quotes
#1. The difference between what is neurosis and what is wisdom is very hard to perceive, because somehow the energy underlying both of them is the same.
Pema Chodron
#2. What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends
A.W. Tozer
#3. But what is Wisdom really? A steady handling of any means to bring about any end necessary to happiness. Yet whether one's end be the usual end - a wealthy position in life - or no, the name of wisdom is seldom applied but to the means to that usual end.
Thomas Hardy
#4. Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#5. What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a single lens, can never hope for wisdom.
James Rozoff
#6. If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.
Lyman Abbott
#8. To believe in what you don't know is as true as to believe in what you do know as long as life is an illusion.
Sorin Cerin
#9. Wisdom is being able to see the world for what it is, rather than what you want it to be.
Patrick F. Rooney
#10. What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.
Christopher Fry
#11. The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love.
Jennifer Edwards
#12. The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.
James Gray
#13. Creativity is the work of your hands or the work of your tongue so you have to be careful what you say because it would cost you big time.
Euginia Herlihy
#14. Karna gave a mirthless smile and replied evenly,'What is the use of a competition if one cannot be compared with others? Talk is the weapon of the weak; release your arrows instead of hollow words.
Kavita Kane
#15. The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.
Nirmala Srivastava
#16. What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.
Edward Everett
#17. The amount of time spent doing something is what adds value to it
Sunday Adelaja
#18. It is not our difficulties or our suffering alone that makes us wise. It is what we add to them
patience, perseverance, compassion, courage, love. From this combination, our priceless pearls of wisdom grow.
Barbara De Angelis
#19. So they put them to flight by Allah's permission. And Dawood slew Jalut, and Allah gave him kingdom and wisdom, and taught him of what He pleased. And were it not for Allah's repelling some men with others, the earth would certainly be in a state of disorder; but Allah is Gracious to the creatures.
Anonymous
#21. There is no greed in knowing what you want, getting what you want, to then having what you want. The only greed in it will be to expect what you want to fall into your lap.
Sarah Pussell
#22. The best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.
Paulo Coelho
#23. And it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received?
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#24. 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
#26. Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Defeat is real. It is also temporary. We have to understand both. Faced for what it is, absorbed and met without self-deception, defeat can offer wisdom and motivation. Begin even though you know that you will suffer failure and defeat along the way.
Eric Greitens
#28. What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
Vivek Wadhwa
#29. And now she began muttering to herself. "God , who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.
Chinelo Okparanta
#30. Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying to catch a falling leaf. Occasionally you may grab one out of the air and hold it in your hands, but now what?
Daniel J. Rice
#31. The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is "not" in their destiny.
Idries Shah
#32. I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.
Woody Allen
#33. If we not only feed that most intelligent computer which is our brain but also compute the data we collect, we cannot go wrong. In a way we all can guess what will happen.
Gisela Hausmann
#34. Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.
Robertson Davies
#35. Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning ... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.
Angela Ahrendts
#36. Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.
Atul Gawande
#37. How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'?
It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#38. Happiness is when you're content with what you have and appreciate what you get with gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
#40. For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
Confucius
#41. Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
Zhuangzi
#42. Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
Edward Abbey
#43. People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.
Idries Shah
#44. The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.
Abhijit Naskar
#46. History is not necessarily what happened but what is recorded.
Debbie Terranova
#47. When you try to do what is right the whole world will find ways to help you.
Debasish Mridha
#48. True wisdom is knowing what you don't know
Confucius
#49. Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin ... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings; be able to say, at its most secret actings, 'This is your old way and course; I know what you aim at.'
John Owen
#50. It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Thomas Huxley
#51. The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.
Jason Calacanis
#52. Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.
Joan Erikson
#53. What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
A.C. Dixon
#54. 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
#55. All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.
Malinda Lo
#56. The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.
Eleanor Brown
#57. Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!
Rhonda Byrne
#58. Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#60. Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.
J.R. Rim
#61. What you were is yesterday.
What you are is now.
What you can be is tomorrow.
What you decide to be is today.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#62. Your mind is the most powerful magnet. What you think, you attract.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
Aristotle.
#64. In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
Deepak Chopra
#66. Someday we will forget the hardship, and the pain its cause us; we will realise, hurt is not the end. lessons appear to teach us strength, we learn happiness is an inside job and to cure our insanity we must not fear what is to come, but believe in what we've been taught.
Nikki Rowe
#67. Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.
Charlie Munger
#68. Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
Fulton J. Sheen
#69. It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world; how they are destroyed.
Bryant McGill
#70. When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.
Helen Mirren
#71. What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?
Edward Young
#72. It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.
Lord David Cecil
#73. Men shouldn't fear or hate what they do not know but study it and share it instead. It is both an act of selfishness and cruelty to seek for the destruction of wisdom and the wise, but also to keep silent when witnessing it happening.
Daniel Marques
#74. You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.
Abu'l-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi
#75. To act - that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success.
Fernando Pessoa
#76. To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.
Anna Pavlova
#77. Anytime you use your God-given abilities to help others, you are fulfilling your purpose of life.
What matters is not the Duration of your life, but the Donation of it.
Rick Warren
#78. For this is Wisdom; to love, to live
To take what fate, or the Gods may give.
To ask no questions, to make no prayer,
To kiss the lips and caress the hair,
Spend passion's ebb as you greet its flow
To have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go!
Laurence Hope
#79. Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#81. What is yoga ? In simple words, it is taking your attention to the Spirit. This is yoga. What does the kundalini do ? She raises your attention and takes it to the Spirit. Only after knowing the Spirit you can know God.
Nirmala Srivastava
#82. There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.
Janice Marturano
#83. What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind's reflection.
Debasish Mridha
#85. What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social structures. With breadth of intellect and balance of wisdom, Smith resets the frame of reflection for the most important discussions of the twenty-first century.
William B. Hurlbut
#86. What is the purpose of life?
To be loving, kind, caring, useful, and of course, to be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
Chuck Smith
#88. Wisdom and strength, and my family, is what I'd like for you to pray for.
George W. Bush
#89. All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments.
Meera Uberoi
#90. Leadership calls for both wisdom and courage; the wisdom to know what to do is only half the battle. We must be courageous enough to actually do it.
Kellen Roggenbuck
#91. There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but don't ever forget to mind the real lessons from the story behind what you like.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#92. He said that that what men do not understand is that what the dead have quit is itself no world but is only the picture of the world in men's hearts. He said that the world cannot be quit for it is eternal in whatever form as are all things within it.
Cormac McCarthy
#93. Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
Watchman Nee
#95. What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
John Milton
#96. What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
Christopher Reeve
#97. We should keep in mind that there are always more truths to know, and we will know more as we evolve. Being faithful to what we already know is the key that opens the door to higher truths.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#98. Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
Dejan Stojanovic
#99. Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.
Sorin Cerin
#100. Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom
to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
Plato
