Quotes About Wisdom

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

I believe the minorities need to have a strategy of survival because needless aggression when you cannot change the situation does not help. Wisdom is more important than saving some cultural symbol.

My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to the threshold of enlightenment.

There is no wisdom but in death

Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

There are no crowds in the shores of wisdom!

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.