Quotes About Wisdom

Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

I act freely when I am tuned in, centred and loving, but if possible, I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

People should not feel intimidated by received wisdom. You have to discover it yourself. If I tell you that Armstrong is great, it's meaningless; you have to hear it.

We need to forgive - but mindfully. We need compassion that powered by wisdom. That's the way to address our bullies.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.