Quotes About Wisdom

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage. And suppose you can't do that either. Then where does blaming people get you?

Short is the little which remains to thee in life. Live as on a mountain.

Many such things will strike him, things not credible to the many, but which come to him alone who is truly familiar with the works of Nature and near to her own heart.

If the choice rests with thee, why do the thing? if with another, whom dost thou blame? Atoms or Gods? To do either would be crazy folly. No one is to blame. For if thou canst, set the offender right. Failing that, at least set the thing itself right. If that too be impracticable, what purpose is served by imputing blame? For without a purpose nothing should be done.

Harbour no such opinions as he holds who does thee violence, or as he would have thee hold. See things in all their naked reality.

Pentru cei înÅ£elepÅ£i viaÅ£a este o problem?, iar pentru cei obiÅŸnuiÅ£i o soluÅ£ie.

we must not think as all men think, but only as those who live a life accordant with nature. As for those who live otherwise, he remembers always how they act at home and abroad, by night and by day, and how and with whom they are found in company. And so he cannot esteem the praise of such, for they enjoy not their own approbation.

Forget not in future, when anything would lead you to feel hurt, to take your stand upon this axiom: This is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

Precz z ksi??kami! Ju? nie dawaj siÄ™ im pociÄ…gn??! Nie wolno! (...) ?aknienie zaÅ› ksi??ek precz od siebie rzu?, byÅ› nie umieraÅ' wÅ›ród narzekaÅ", lecz spokojnie.

Prvo - stvari ne mogu dirnuti um: one su izvanjske i nepomi?ne; strepnja može pote?i samo iz unutarnje prosudbe. Drugo, da se sve ono što vidiš mijenja još u trenutku dok to promatraš, i zatim nestaje. Neprekidno se podsje?aj da si se i ti, kakva si sebe vidio, ve? promojenio Univerzum je mijena - život je prosudba.

Ve?ina onoga što govorimo i što ?inimo nepotrebno je - ukloni površnost i imat ?eš više vremena i manje briga. Stoga bi svatko, u svakoj prilici, trebao sebe podsjetiti: ''Je li ovo, ili nije, nešto neophodno ?'' Uklanjanje nepotrebnoga trebalo bi primijeniti ne samo na djela nego i na misli - tada ne bi dolazilo do suvišnih djela.

Conventional wisdom tells us that we learn from our mistakes. The strengths movement says that all we learn from mistakes are the characteristics of mistakes.

it is important that children not be taught in such a way that they will later need to unlearn many things. We

We do not think that Jesus thought that the purpose of his life, his vocation, was his death. His purpose was what he was doing as a healer, wisdom teacher, social prophet, and movement initiator. His death was the consequence of what he was doing, but not his purpose.

To see Jesus as "the Wisdom of God" and "Son of God" and "messiah" means to take very seriously what we see in him as a disclosure of God.

They are soon gone, and we fly away. . . . So teach us to count our days / that we may gain a wise heart" (90.12).

The human Jesus is the Word made flesh. The human Jesus is the wisdom of God. The human Jesus is the Spirit of God embodied in human life. In short, the meaning of all the statements about Jesus show us what a life full of God is like.

To put that threefold summary into three phases, there was to Jesus, first, a Spirit dimension, second, a wisdom dimension, and, third, a justice dimension.

The religious form of conventional wisdom with its excessive certitude blinds us to the mystery and wonder of life.

Postcritical naivete is the ability to hear the biblical stories once again as true stories, even as one knows that they may not be factually true and that their truth does not depend upon their factuality.

Among the world's religions, perhaps the best-known examples are Lao Tzu in China and the Buddha in India. Within the tradition of Israel, the authors of Job and Ecclesiastes are voices of an alternative wisdom that challenged the conventional wisdom of their day.

Jesus also offers an alternative wisdom. As a wisdom teacher, he is more like Lao Tzu or the Buddha than he is like a teacher of conventional wisdom.39 The basis for my judgment is twofold. The first is the sheer weight of wisdom teaching attributed to Jesus. Most of his teaching is in the form of memorable short sayings (aphorisms) and provocative short stories (parables), both classic wisdom forms.

This claim is also the central theme of Abraham Heschel's The Prophets. Heschel