Quotes About Wisdom

What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

Meditation is re-discovering the inner Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God lies in our understandings and wisdom.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.

It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

God's power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest