Quotes About Wisdom

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations

The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.

Know the Power that is Peace.

The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

Use wisely your power of choice.

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.

This blue one's a smart'un. See how he puffs out his gut so you won't cinch him tight? And then the saddle falls off later and you with it." Cloyd laughed. "Better not let him hear you . . ." "He thinks he's fooled us," Walter whispered. He turned away as if he was done, then winked and quickly cinched in a few more notches. "I wasn't born yesterday," he said.

Just as with space, whose separating of things seems exactly on a par with its uniting of them, but sometimes one function and sometimes the other is what come home to us most, so, in our general dealings with the world of influences, we now need conductors and now need non-conductors, and wisdom lies in knowing which is which at the appropriate moment.

I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think.

Let me tweak that just a bit: "In times of great abundance, learners will inherit the earth...." Imagine

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.