Top 100 Wisdom Quotes

1

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

2

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

3

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

4

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

5

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

6

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

7

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

8

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

9

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

10

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

11

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

12

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

13

You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness, you cannot grow in your spirituality. So it's very important to see where is your attention. Where are you putting your attention? If the attention could be controlled then things will be all right.

14

Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.

15

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

16

Please all, and you will please none.

17

A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds

18

Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

19

Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.

20

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

21

Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt

22

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

23

Never find fault with the absent.

24

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

25

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.

26

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

27

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

28

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

29

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

30

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

31

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

32

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

33

In the space age the most important space is between the ears.

34

Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.

35

Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.

36

There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven.

37

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

38

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

39

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

40

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

41

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

42

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

43

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

44

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

45

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

46

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

47

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

48

Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

49

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

50

Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.

51

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

52

If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

53

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

54

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

55

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

56

Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!

57

I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.

58

...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.

59

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

60

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

61

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

62

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

63

To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.

64

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

65

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

66

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

67

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

68

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

69

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

70

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

71

There are always more choices than you think.

72

We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary!

73

The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.

74

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

75

The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

76

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

77

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

78

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

79

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

80

Look twice before you leap.

81

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

82

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

83

Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

84

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

85

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

86

All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.

87

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

88

If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

89

You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.

90

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

91

Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

92

When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.

93

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

94

What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.

95

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

96

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

97

Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.

98

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

99

You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there is simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.

100

... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.

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