Quotes About Wisdom

Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it. Rikiu loved to quote an old poem which says: 'To those who long only for flowers, fain would I show the full-blown spring which abides in the toiling buds of snow-covered hills.

To know is sometimes good, but to have the wisdom to accept what you cannot know is better.

A wise man sleeps with his eyes and keeps his ears awake.

The death that kills a puppy first blinds him. The headstrong who won't listen will finally obey the summons of the death mat. The housefly who has nobody to advise it follows the corpse into the grave.

Even the most potent hash When spent eventually becomes ash The most needed now is cash But then, for it you must nt rush

If one could know whether among that glittering host there were here and there other spirit-inhabited grains of rock and metal, whether man's blundering search for wisdom and for love was a sole and insignificant tremor, or part of a universal movement!

I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature.

For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes.

Bvalltu, for such approximately was the philosopher's name, the "11" being pronounced more or less as in 27 Welsh, Bvalltu effected a "cure" by merely inviting

Socrates woke to the ideal of dispassionate intelligence, Jesus to the ideal of passionate yet self-oblivious worship. Socrates urged intellectual integrity, Jesus integrity of will. Each, of course, though starting with a different emphasis, involved the other.

Industry was subordinated to the conscious social goal. Science, formerly the slave of industry, became the free colleague of wisdom.

For conduct which to clearer minds seems merely sane, was in those days to be performed only by rare vision and self-mastery.

The young will not always be young, the famous will not always be relevant, the outspoken will not always have a voice. Make the most of now.

After all, what makes any event important, unless by its observation we become better and wiser, and learn 'to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God'? To those who are possessed of this spirit there is scarcely any book of incident so trifling that does not afford some profit, while to others the experience of ages seems of no use; and even to pour out to them the treasures of wisdom is throwing the jewels of instruction away.

Tida går, forteler dei. Men det er vi som går. Tida blir liggande att ho, og lat henne ligge.

God in His infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise— So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise

Tragedy plus time isn't comedy,

Everything will pass. The wise Man knows this from the start, and has no regrets.

Speaking does harm, sows confusion and weakens things that are obvious. Speaking makes me tremble inside. I don't think I have ever said anything really important in my entire life -- there's a lack of words for the most important things anyway. (I must make a list of missing words -- top of it I'll put a verb that means something in between "I sense" and "I see.")

the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions.

Prawda jest jak s?kacz, sk?ada si? z wielu warstw, które kr?c? si? wokó? siebie, raz siebie zawieraj?, a raz same s? zawierane przez inne. Prawda to jest co?, co mo?na wyra?a? wieloma opowie?ciami, bo jest jak ten ogród, do którego weszli m?drcy: ka?dy widzia? co innego.

Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse?

When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.

There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well.