Quotes About Wisdom

If you don't want to "sweat the small stuff," it's critical that you choose your battles wisely.

It's always a good idea to ask yourself, Where is this decision likely to lead? When you do, you can avoid many hassles and mistakes that are otherwise inevitable. By asking this simple question, you can keep your energy directed in areas that will serve you and others well.

Trust in your own instincts and wisdom, and not in the words and fears of experts.

Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We

speaking, as your level of understanding rises, you will have the experience of deeper feelings such as gratitude, calmness, peace, hope, and joy.

One of my favorite posters says, "Life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been a real life you would have been instructed where to go and what to do." Whenever I think of this humorous bit of wisdom, it reminds me to not take my life so seriously.

This is pretty simple stuff. But the truth is, the reality of making money and wise decisions isn't very complicated. However, not many people understand the importance of a don't-worry attitude. If you do, you're one step ahead of the game.

Mark Twain said, "I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

It suggests that life is filled with opportunities to choose between making a big deal out of something or simply letting it go, realizing it doesn't really matter. If you choose your battles wisely, you'll be far more effective in winning those that are truly important.

Instinct is no match for reason.

There are women out there that will add value to your life - if you keep the wrong ones out.

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

children should be taught not so much what to think as how to think.

John Stuart Mill was already able to say: 'The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to tell us what to do.

you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

Don't squander precious ignorance by researching it away.

giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow.

He may have agreed with Napoleon, who said, 'Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet,' and with Seneca the Younger: 'Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

St Augustine said it quite openly: 'There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn' (quoted in Freeman 2002).