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Wisdom Quotes
"The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself."
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"When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else."
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"Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love."
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"You are learner. With diligent practice, you will be an expert."
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"It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it."
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"Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too, may have experienced a slap in my life, and am therefore speaking as a connoisseur."
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"To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love."
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"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."
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"The truth is never dressed for the occasion."
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"Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes, own them... learn from them. Don't throw away the lesson by blaming others."
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"Wisdom is a teacher, God is its professor. The wise are His students, life is His rod, and eternal life is our reward."
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"A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea."
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"Despite all the identifying, measuring, photographing, I had managed to set the experience in a kind of present past, a having looked, even as I was temporally and physically still looking...It is not necessarily too little knowledge that causes ignorance; possessing too much, or wanting to gain too much, can produce the same result."
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"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."
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"I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the very end of the struggle you've made no progress at all. That upon discovering that, you've raised to a lofty moral height, and you've accepted your fate, and somehow went on."
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"When most major Protestant denominations have their annual councils, assemblies, or conventions, they make pronouncements on matters having to do with disarmament, federal aid to education, birth control, the United Nations, and any number of social and political issues. Very rarely are any resolutions passed that have to do with theredemptive witness of the Gospel."
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"It is better to wait until you get the right thing, at the right time and in the right place; than to race for the wrong thing, at the wrong time and in the wrong place, for it yields nothing but disgrace."
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"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."
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"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."
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"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
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"Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing."
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"Quietude is the hermit's humble tool. An intrepid person might attempt to wring out of him or herself a translucent state of creative consciousness by deliberately cutting oneself off from all outside stimuli. When the exterior world forms a wall of impenetrable silence, in our state of exile we can hear the unique cadence of the subtle mind's authentic ringtone."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
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"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."
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"Some praise at morning what they blame at night."
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"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
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"Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure."
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."
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"Understanding is aggregated knowledge that has transformed into a lifestyle."
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"Who can tell us how to get along with each other better than God? Where can we turn for wisdom better than God's Word, the Bible?"
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"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
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