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Wisdom Quotes
"There is nothing in the path of life that we don't already know before we start. Nothing important is learned, it is simply remembered."
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"Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life."
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"We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."
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"For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom."
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"My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech."
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"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
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"The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy."
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"An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'"
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"I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone."
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"Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but it doesn't mean that they are right and you should listen to them."
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"Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!"
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"If you venture to be a sageLet your virtues subside your rageFor deep wisdom you'll be veneratedLet cold veins feel blood cells generated."
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"To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!"
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"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."
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"No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution."
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"Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature."
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"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
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"The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent."
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"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."
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"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has."
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"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
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"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
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"Pieces of jigsaw puzzle might all be different but when fit in, completes the story. Expecting all pieces to be the same is craziness, completing the puzzle is what you are born for!!!!"
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"You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time."
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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
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"If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small."
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"Answer this to yourselves, & expel from among you those who pretend to despise the labours of Art & Science, which alone are the labours of the Gospel: Is not this plain & manifest to the thought? Can you think at all, & not pronounce heartily! That to Labour in Knowledge. is to Build up Jerusalem: and to Despise Knowledge, is to Despise Jerusalem & her Builders. And remember: He who despises & mocks a Mental Gift in another; calling it pride & selfishness & sin; mocks Jesus the giver of every Mental Gift. which always appear to the ignorance-loving Hypocrite, as Sins. but that which is a Sin in the sight of cruel Man. is not so in the sight of our kind God."
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"Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement."
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"Our goal in life is to carry with us the wisdom of experience, yet treat each new day as its own unique reality, rather than comparing what currently is to what has been in the past. When we compare, we plant expectations that then become self-fulfilling prophesies through the Law of Attraction."
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"Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny."
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"It's been said that actions speak louder than words. Sometimes, it's what you don't say or do, that sends the loudest message."
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"Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left,You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books,You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself."
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"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."
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"There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!"
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