Top 100 Wisdom O Quotes
#1. O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.
John Milton
#2. The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms is an inescapable and defining aspect of the human condition.
Paul O'Brien
#4. O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.
Rabia Basri
#5. O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.
Abdul-Qadir Gilani
#6. O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.
Rabia Basri
#8. "O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."
Charles Dickens
#9. What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God.
Augustine Of Hippo
#10. O God, the Eternal All, help me to know that all things are shadows, but Thou art substance, all things are quicksands, but Thou art mountain, all things are shifting, but Thou art anchor, all things are ignorance, but Thou art wisdom.
Anonymous
#11. O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.
Christopher Pearse Cranch
#13. The privileged, we'll see time and again, are processed more by people, the masses by machines.
Cathy O'Neil
#14. Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
George Gordon Byron
#15. O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
Napoleon Hill
#16. My nose, thank god, had conked out by then. Noses are merciful that way. They will report that something smells awful. If the owner of a nose stays around anyway, the nose concludes that the smell isn't so bad after all. It shuts itself off, deferring to superior wisdom.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's.
Ron Rash
#18. When you're a person of Faith, you have a super power. In fact, you have THE Super Power. #john316
Jayce O'Neal
#19. O love! Poor love! How did you pierce my heart?
How did touch my soul?
How did you win my mind?
The judgmental ever-complaining mind.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Many say "What goes up must come down." I believe this was spoken by a pessimist. I believe it is vitally important to remember that "What goes up ... must have started some place." #workhard
Jayce O'Neal
#21. I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
P. J. O'Rourke
#22. The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.
P. J. O'Rourke
#23. Farsi Couplet:
Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast,
Hameen ast-o hameen ast-o hameen ast.
English Translation:
If there is a paradise on earth,
It is this, it is this, it is this
Amir Khusrau
#24. No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.
Michael D. O'Brien
#25. It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#26. O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
Plato
#27. A man with experience can gain his place in the world. A man of continous arguments cease to learn. O' But a man of wisdom understands experience comes and goes and arguments are for fools.
Ocean Crisstopher Poet
#28. O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
Robert Baden-Powell
#29. The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.
Stormie O'martian
#30. Answers based in truth are the foundation of wisdom.
Jayce O'Neal
#31. O Allah,
You know that the only thing I want in this life
Is to be obedient to Your command.
Even the living sight of my eyes
Is service at your court
Rabia Basri
#32. We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.
Bill O'Reilly
#33. The sword has spoke the truth - in authority and wisdom - only the sword O Damascus is certain!
Nizar Qabbani
#34. The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
Eugene O'Neill
#35. Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word
My choicest hours
Are the hours I spend with You -
O God, I can't live in this world
Without remembering You
Rabia Basri
#36. O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.
Salman Al-Ouda
#37. [I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed!
Vincent De Paul
#38. But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.
John Milton
#39. There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.
Gautama Buddha
#40. Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.
Graham O'Connell
#42. Keep Something Beautiful in your Heart to Survive Difficult Times and Enjoy Good Times.
John O'Donohue
#43. Yet whether wisdom can be any more profitably pursued than happiness is a question.
Patrick O'Brian
#44. The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.
Jamie O'Neill
#45. It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.
Flannery O'Connor
#47. This Fudo Myo-o, whose name means "Immovable Wisdom King," is represented with a sword to cut through our ignorance and a rope to bind up our emotions
Miyamoto Musashi
#48. We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.
Jayce O'Neal
#49. Philosophers have often held dispute
As to the seat of thought in man and brute
For that the power of thought attends the latter
My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter,
And spite of dogmas current in all ages,
One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)
Edgar Allan Poe
#50. We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O. Douglas
#51. Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
Thomas Aquinas
#53. O loving wisdom of our God
when all was sin and shame,
a second Adam to the fight
and to the rescue came.
John Henry Newman
#55. O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.
Jaggi Vasudev
#56. The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.
John O'Donohue
#58. Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
Thomas Aquinas
#59. The body is your only home in the universe. It is your house of belonging here in the world. It is a very sacred temple. To spend time in silence before the mystery of your body brings you toward wisdom and holiness.
John O'Donohue
#60. Yes, it is true that beauty is only skin deep, and internal loveliness resonates to the outside; but deep down inside every woman secretly longs to possess the allure of a royal queen.
Terry A. O'Neal
#61. The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.
E. O. Wilson
#62. Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.
Austin O'Malley
#63. O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
Benjamin Franklin
#64. Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.
Thom S. Rainer
#65. O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
Gautama Buddha
#68. The continually moving mind is philosophically symbolized by the avatar Fudo Myo-o, the Wisdom King, often depicted holding a sword in one hand for cutting through ignorance, and a rope in the other for tying up passions.
Yagyu Munenori
#71. 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
#72. Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become an exile in your own life, an outsider lost in an external spiritual place that your will and intellect, have constructed.
John O'Donohue
#73. O thy! Thou made me infinite with infinite love.
Not by finishing, but by transforming to
infinite for infinite joy!
Debasish Mridha
#74. If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom.
Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
#75. I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.
William O. Douglas
#76. Relationships are set up to be imperfect. They are designed by the master creator of relationships to be flawed, to be forever inadequate, and to be a work of art.
Julieanne O'Connor
#77. Men are accustomed to making objective assessments of devastating situations, as long as they are not immersed in them. Rare is he who maintains objectivity in the midst of personal affliction.
Michael D. O'Brien
#78. O the divine, O my love, I don't want to seduce you with my wealth or splendor, but with my love and deepest gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
#79. We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. - E. O. Wilson
Fareed Zakaria
#80. The first beginnings of wisdom ... is to ask questions but never to answer any.
Flann O'Brien
#81. The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.
(August 9, 1955)
Flannery O'Connor
#82. Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
Flann O'Brien
#83. O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me.
From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me.
My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed.
Busiri
#84. The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
Plato
#85. O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the United Trinity? Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#86. Wisdom is the art of being courageous and generous with the unknown.
John O'Donohue
#87. O Lord ...
Once I wanted You so much
I didn't even dare walk past Your house-
And now
I am not even worthy to be let in
Rabia Basri
#88. 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
#90. O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!
Sorin Cerin
#91. Usually, if you think something's wrong, it probably is ...
Jayce O'Neal
#92. When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.
Flannery O'Connor
#93. Great men and women are not extraordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are ordinary people who do ordinary things with integrity.
Jayce O'Neal
#94. Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education ... is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.
David O. McKay
#95. To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.
Shaquille O'Neal
#96. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
Brian O'Driscoll
#97. Wasted tries, The many whys, Is it the soul of Compromise?
Lows and highs, Believing in lies, In life we have to improvise.
Frustration and cries, The last leg of sighs, You are the dreamer in disguise!
To the guilt say goodbyes, Open your eyes, Your soul - I do so recognize.
Julieanne O'Connor
#99. The only sin in this world is to lose faith in yourself.
Abhijit Naskar
#100. Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
Austin O'Malley
