Wisdom It Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The splendor of youth is, to a point, the splendor of error. Jealous the old, who have everything previewed! The nightingale will never come sing over your wisdom. It won't, darlin', it won't.

Odysseus Elytis

#3. That is the problem with age and wisdom - it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

Bill Bonner

#4. When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Mayim Bialik

#5. In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

Umair Haque

#6. 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

#7. What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

Jacques Maritain

#9. Don't be so fond of what you planned that somehow to change it seems like a violation of your own choice and wisdom. It's just the opposite.

Lee Carroll

#10. CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.

James Allen

#11. Remember and think about the closeness of the Creator. If you live in this wisdom, it will give you endless strength and hope.

Frank Fools Crow

#12. If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

Mary Baker Eddy

#13. Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.

Mahesh Babu

#14. The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

Apollonius Of Tyana

#15. Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams

Smohalla

#16. I think I unknowingly seek people who are better than me in the sense of strength and wisdom. It's like I've got to know and trust that you have the answers and that you can carry me if needed.

Aeriel Miranda

#17. What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

A.W. Tozer

#18. Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.

Byron Katie

#19. and wondered how much power and how much wisdom it would take to do right by more than one person at a time. A

Laurence Shames

#20. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. It

Dan Brown

#21. Takuan Soho stated, Each action of the warrior is performed from a place of fundamental wisdom ... it is completely different from the ordinary behavior of a fool. Even if it looks the same, it is different on the inside.

Bohdi Sanders

#22. Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way.

Sharon Salzberg

#23. I see at least that all knowledge I wrung from the darkness
that the darkness flung me
is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, the darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness and we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Randall Jarrell

#24. For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending.

Alecia Stone

#25. The most wonderful thing about being well-traveled in life experiences and adventures, is the humility / humanity AND wisdom it gives us who venture._nickc

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#26. Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Peter Ritchie Calder

#27. Experience does not give you wisdom, it gives you habits.

Michael Grinder

#28. It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

#29. I want my husband to lead me and our family. But in order for him to do that I must be willing to submit to his lead. This does not mean I surrender my opinions or input or wisdom ... it means I surrender my grip of control and selfish ways and trust him!

Jennifer E. Smith

#30. Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#31. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

Adrian Grenier

#33. The human mind is something very unique and precious. Possessing an unusual elasticity and capacity for wisdom, it can evolve at a rate found in no other life-form.

Dalai Lama XIV

#34. The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

Lauren Kate

#35. To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi.

Rajneesh

#36. (It has become clear to me, for example, that aging itself does not bring wisdom. It often brings regression to childishness, dependency, and bitterness over lost opportunities. Only those who are still intellectually, emotionally, spiritually growing inherit the richness of aging.)

James Hollis

#37. 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

#38. Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.

Jonas Salk

#39. It's clear that politeness to one's elders can't always be justified on the basis of the elder's superior wisdom. It's just that it's not attractive to see a young person answering an older person back.

Zoe Heller

#40. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was

Charles Dickens

#41. Sometimes you lose your way; you walk in the twilight of a forest; and suddenly you see an old but a beautiful house. And that old mossy house is a good quotation! It is old because it has wisdom; it is beautiful because it gives you a hope!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#42. 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

#43. To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known. As

Carlo Rovelli

#44. You can't hide from wisdom, it's everywhere;
you won't find it in everyone, it's too rare.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#45. Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

Jimi Hendrix

#46. In Buddhism you study how to release the kundalini to the levels that would certainly afford career success. If we move it further, into the planes of knowledge and wisdom, it enables the practitioner to do just about anything.

Frederick Lenz

#47. Holiness is the perfection of all His other attributes: His power is holy power; His mercy is holy mercy; His wisdom is holy wisdom. It is His holiness more than any other attribute that makes Him worthy of our praise.

Jerry Bridges

#48. It's about freedom, joy, and wisdom. It's all about divine love.

Harold Klemp

#49. It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

P.D. James

#50. It is not sufficient, he emphasized, to colour (colorare) the mind with wisdom; it must be pickled (macerare) in it, as it were, soaked in it (inficere), and entirely transformed by it.

Peter Sloterdijk

#51. Knowledge can be
conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is
possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it
cannot be expressed in words and taught.

Hermann Hesse

#52. Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God's wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse.

Joseph Prince

#53. Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

Michael R. Burch

#54. [Prayer] is the thirst of ignorance drinking deep draughts from the overflowing fulness of divine wisdom. It is the exhaustion of weakness drawing nerve into a broken will from the resources of infinite strength.

Benjamin M. Palmer

#55. I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,

Charles Dickens

#56. Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again. We forget that now is the moment we are in, that the next one isn't guaranteed. And if we are blessed with another moment, any joy, creativity or wisdom it brings will ensue from the way we live in the present one.

Susan L. Taylor

#57. The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

Mason Cooley

#58. Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.

C.J. Anderson

#59. Gideon touched her cheek, lightly, with the tips of his fingers. "Did you know your name means 'wisdom'? It was very well-given.

Cassandra Clare

#60. The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

Robert H. Jackson

#61. It is not a pumping-in from the outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that determines how much you can attain of true knowledge, and how rapidly. You can quicken your evolution by awakening and increasing the receptive power of your brain cells.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#62. It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#63. Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

Andy Stanley

#64. Share your wisdom. It is the best way to help in the progress of life and humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#65. If the mental poisons can finally be transformed into wisdom, it is because their ultimate nature is endowed with primordial, naturally luminous purity.

Dalai Lama XIV

#66. Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

Thomas Carlyle

#67. I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pleasant feeling.

Heinrich Hertz

#68. Humor is a necessary part of wisdom; it gives perspective; it frees the spirit. - ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY I

Jean Kennedy Smith

#69. 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

#70. Strength, courage & wisdom ... it's been inside of me all along ...

India.Arie

#71. Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Julian Casablancas

#72. people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It

Richard Russo

#73. For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits
near them, waiting.

Patanjali

#74. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#75. Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

Huston Smith

#76. The bad news is that time is finite, but good news is that it's enough for a life.

Debasish Mridha

#77. 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

#78. It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves.

Bryant McGill

#79. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.

Esther Dalseno

#80. If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease.

Frederick Lenz

#81. I've written things about that, about how life's really big decisions aren't right or wrong, it's just that one lives different lives. No, I don't think your life went wrong.

Bernhard Schlink

#82. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.

Mark W. Boyer

#83. Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Samuel Johnson

#84. Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter.

James Stephens

#85. As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.

James Hollis

#86. The vision is for the right time, although it takes time, wait for it , it will come true.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#87. Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.

Moutasem Algharati

#88. Wisdom is being able to see the world for what it is, rather than what you want it to be.

Patrick F. Rooney

#89. Humanity is a very interesting phenomenon. If you peel back the layers, if you're brave enough, you realize it's something that's not for the faint of heart-" Angel M.B. Chadwick

Angel M.B. Chadwick

#90. What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

Christopher Fry

#91. 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

#92. Always take a compliment, even if it's not yours

Benny Bellamacina

#93. It is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering

Radhe Maa

#94. But slowly, it happened everywhere, in the West and in the East as well, that the journey to wisdom through suffering became a global art form.

Andrew Ramer

#95. keep following your heart.
it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.

AVA.

#96. Wisdom says we should try to make a relationship work not because we have strong feelings but because it's a good match.

Gary L. Thomas

#97. It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.

Ibn Ata Allah

#98. If one does not get it into his head from the very beginning that the world is full of unseemly situations, for the most part his demeanour will be poor and he will not be believed by others.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#99. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

Enza Vita

#100. CANDLE WISDOM
If you knew
what you will know
when your candle
has burnt low,
it would greatly
ease your plight
while your candle
still burns bright.

Piet Hein