Quotes About Wisdom

Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

Easy to read, yet filled with wisdom that will penetrate your heart, this book puts the power back in your hands. It's a must have.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.

Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

Power educates the potentate.

Wherever there is power there is age.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

There's more power in the simpler things, I think.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.