Quotes About Wisdom

I always keep my mind open. For me, a mind has to work like like a parachute, works only if it's open.

No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

We are learning to work with intuition, which actually is Soul giving us gentle guidance to make our life better.

I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.

From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands and every (lawful) business transaction."

You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.

A lifetime's work, to try and say one thing that's true.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.