Wisdom Quotes - Page 22

• We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.348, Vintage

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• God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

  Antonin Scalia

  God, Christian, Wise

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• What is it to be wise?
  'Tis but to know how little can be known,
  To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Faults, Littles

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.123

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• He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

  James Huneker

  Stupid, Knowledge, Decision

  James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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• In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

  George Crabbe

  Success, Wish, Way

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.247

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• The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

  Edward Young

  Clouds, Titles, May

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.227

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• It is not enough to know what you want, you must also know why you want it, and what you will do once you have it! All those elements impact the world around you and therefore must be considered.

  Kathleen McGowan

  Impact, Elements, World

  Kathleen McGowan (2012). “The Source of Miracles: Seven Powerful Steps to Transforming Your Life Through the Lord's Prayer”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Fate, Men, Leader

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• The deepest words
  of the wise man teach us
  the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
  or the sound of the water when it is flowing.

  Antonio Machado

  Wise, Blow, Men

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.69, Wesleyan University Press

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• Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Heartbreak, Spiritual

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• Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

  Laurence Sterne

  Science, Intelligence, May

  Tristam Shandy

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• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Men, Knowing

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• Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.

  Joseph Story

  Experience, Materials, Humans

  "Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Edited by his son William W. Story".

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• I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Wise, Joy, How To Be Happy

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• Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

  Cato the Younger

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Men, Intelligence

  "Characters: Of The Gifts of Fortune," #49, 1688.

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• The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Wise, Light, Air

  John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.334

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• Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

  John Fletcher

  Hindsight, Form, Consent

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• Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

  William Wordsworth

  Children, Knees, Rounds

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• When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Giving Up, Buddhism

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• Wisdom is found only in truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Found

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• Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.

  Taylor Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Being Yourself, Nice

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 25, 2009

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• Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pain, Hunting, Nuts

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• Only the shallow know themselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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