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Monday, 8 September 2008
Daily Quote:
"Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success." (Brown, Les - Responsibility)

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Browse Quotations about Wisdom

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
A nation's treasure is its scholars.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
Action should culminate in wisdom.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
Better to get wisdom than gold.
Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]
By others faults the wise correct their own.
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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.
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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.
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you stemma to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
No man is wise enough by himself.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.