Quotes About Wisdom

It's really better if you let God take charge. I find that when I try to be in control, I lose control.

Those who have fought the good fight for longer in life are able to pray and encourage those who are weak," she would tell him.

Be careful, little girl. Or else the big, bad wolf might just change his mind and decide to eat you after all.

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.

Say something worth the words.

Philip Amato, Hubert Dreyfus, Charles Wesley Emerson, Werner Erhard, Fernando Flores, Buckminster Fuller, Michael Goldstein, Martin Heidegger, Joan Holmes, Randy MacNamara, Jim Selman, William Shakespeare, and Constantine Stanislavsky.

The world could do with fewer scholars and more cultivated people.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

Thank God we can't see the future, we'd never get out of bed.

Buddha teaches that there are many causes and many conditions and always refers to causes and conditions in the plural, never just as cause and effect. We are presented with a very complex picture of how things work.

When the practitioner remains present with the prana and is not wavering, then they have realized the marriage of the authentic state of one's being which is space, and wisdom: ying and yeshe. These two elements, which constitute the authentic state of one's being, cannot be brought together, and because of that they cannot be separated—they function in the state of totality of one's authentic condition where both elements are present.

The five poisons of desire, aggression, jealousy, pride, and ignorance are transformed, or transmuted, into their corresponding five wisdoms. Desire is transformed into discriminating wisdom, aggression into mirror-like wisdom, jealousy into all accomplishing wisdom, pride into wisdom of equanimity, and ignorance into wisdom of dharmadhatu, or reality.

Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, this is not easy.

Intelligence is your ability to learn, and it's the same at age 15 as it is at age 50.

Good decisions require far more than factual knowledge. They are made using self-knowledge and emotional mastery when they're needed most.

Wisdom, then, is how to live in God's world in God's way

So the disciple of Proverbs will acquire discipline that will produce a prudent life, and that prudent life will be demonstrated by "doing what is right and just and fair.

He said that he doesn't believe we become different people as we age. No, he says he believes that we become more people. We're still the kids we were, but we're also the people who've lived all the different ages since that time.

And where most people see mirrors, you, my friend, see windows. By which I mean there is always something beyond the glass. You have seen it and will always see it now, though others may not. I would have spared you that vision at such a young age. But it's been given you, and it will be up to you to decide whether it's a blessing or a curse.

It's a journal, Reynard. Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

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Nine stitches?" S.Q. said. "No, Martina, I'm certain it's just one stitch." "No, a stitch in time saves nine," Martina scoffed. "Exactly," S.Q. replied.

He said he doesn't believe we become different people as we age. No, he says he believes we become more people. We're still the kids we were, but we're also the people who've lived all the different ages since that time. A whole bunch of different people rolled up into one - that's how Nicholas sees it.

You were right, Mr. Benedict," Kate said from the back of the station wagon. "Things are much more pleasant when you stop being angry." -Kate Wetherall