Top 48 Wisdom From Above Quotes
#1. 17 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere.
Anonymous
#2. Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.
Nilakanta Sri Ram
#3. This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls.
Bryan Islip
#4. An enduring belief in light rises above the darkness of night.
Margo Kelly
#5. How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. Societies need self sacrificing ignorant crowd;
Religions need fearful followers;
Systems need obedient slaves;
Corporate world needs compulsive consumers,
and
I NEED THE COURAGE TO RISE ABOVE THESE FOUR PARASITES.
Saurabh Sharma
#8. Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.
Sid Lovett
#9. O Lord, how happy should we be If we would cast our care on Thee, If we from self would rest; And feel at heart that One above, In perfect wisdom, perfect love, Is working for the best!
James Hudson Taylor
#10. The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. ... The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.
John Cowper Powys
#11. No!" said Thorin. "There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!" Then
J.R.R. Tolkien
#12. All I'm saying, Dad, is that I accept that I don't know. But I have faith that my Lord and Savior does, so I'm putting myself in His hands. Humbling myself to a wisdom that's above and beyond me and praying for His guidance.
Wally Lamb
#13. Of nothing comes nothing: springs rise not above Their source in the far-hidden heart of the mountains: Whence then have descended the Wisdom and Love That in man leap to light in intelligent fountains?
John Townsend Trowbridge
#14. The wisdom coming from above, the faith that sweetly works by love.
Charles Wesley
#15. We need help from above if we are to make progress in our journeys.
Anasazi Foundation
#16. If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else." "I know. An overwhelming passion for it." "No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
Anthony De Mello
#17. The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.
Carole Maso
#18. I will teach my son, that his desire to be great doesn't depend on those unfortunate enough to ignore their own.
Nikki Rowe
#19. I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.
Van Jones
#20. Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts ...
Mary Wollstonecraft
#21. Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Francis Bacon
#22. We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.
Russell Hoban
#23. Love is above wisdom, just as the Virgin is above the snake. For her everything is inspiration. She doesn't bother judging what is good and what evil.
Paulo Coelho
#24. Be a thinker, be a dreamer, be a believer, be a doer, and, above all, be a kind lover.
Debasish Mridha
#25. This all-pervading divine power of love is the ocean of knowledge, is the ocean of bliss and compassion, but above all it is the ocean of forgiveness.
Nirmala Srivastava
#26. Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else.
Nirmala Srivastava
#27. The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.
Dennis Lehane
#29. Pray that, above all things, the gates of light may be opened to you; for these things cannot be perceived or understood by all, but only by the man to whom God and his Christ have imparted wisdom (Dial. 7, 3).
Pope Benedict XVI
#30. I have found that great people do have in common ... an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
Yousuf Karsh
#31. Wherever you are, be loving, caring, kind, and above all, be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#32. The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#33. The level above money is savings and higher than savings is investment.invest today
Ikechukwu Joseph
#34. Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#35. I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.
Socrates
#36. I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.
Leo Tolstoy
#37. Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.
William Monahan
#38. Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.
Alvin Plantinga
#39. Pay attention to what your body is telling you about your own wants and needs. Find the rhythms in your cycles. There is wisdom in our biology. Above all, do what feels best. Making healthy choices feels good. This is not deprivation. It is nourishment on all levels. It is the opposite of neglect.
Julie Holland
#40. The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#41. Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated, and Wisdom knows that moral law is above even him. Because his creature has surpassed him he must regenerate himself
Carl Jung
#42. Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
Patti Smith
#43. Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.
Daya Mata
#44. The first rule of a successful parasite? Myxoma's success in Australia suggests something different from that nugget of conventional wisdom I mentioned above. It's not Don't kill your host. It's Don't burn your bridges until after you've crossed them.
David Quammen
#45. Great ideas and small consistent actions with love can change the world from above.
Debasish Mridha
#46. We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade.
G.G. Collins
#47. There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,
No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,
Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory
Douglas M. Laurent
#48. Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.
James K. Morrow
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