Quotes About Wisdom

The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.

The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them.

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Thinking before acting is wisdom but acting before thinking is regret.

Truth can not be manipulated in the slightest. It is the perception of truth that is pliable. To dismiss truth as a fairy tale is the endeavor of the fool.

Truth divorced from experience will always remain in the realm of doubt.

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

You only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors.

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?

Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea.

Trust is like a eraser. It gets smaller and smaller after every mistake."

God is a first-rate bureaucrat, one of the best. In all matters, He sees the truth, but is yet to take a decision.

Perfection is in the mind that makes mistakes

If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the k nowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.

Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

Woher willst du wissen, dass nur das existiert, was wir mit unseren menschlichen Sinnen wahrnehmen können? Wir bilden uns ein, alles zu wissen. Dabei sind uns so viele Bereiche verschlossen, die zum Beispiel Tiere hören oder spüren können. Das beste Beispiel für unsere Beschränktheit ist doch, dass wir seit langem fleißig an dem Ast sägen, auf dem wir sitzen. Welches Geschöpf mit Ausnahme des Menschen wäre so dumm, seinen eigenen Lebensraum zu vernichten?

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Not a quote. Did Ursula study at Hunter College?

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.