Quotes About Wisdom

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.

What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?

I don't call myself an expert because I've played experts. I know a little bit about very little. But it's very hard to not be drawn into saying something, especially if it has to do with the work.

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work

The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.

I think most beauty tips that work and last are kind of old.

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.

This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.