Wisdom Quotes - Page 23

• It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

  William Ralph Inge

  Littles, Mankind, Astonishing

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• The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

  Ivan Panin

  Wise, Men, Tongue

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• The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away

  Bill W.

  Real, Lying, Humility

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• So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.

  Norman Geisler

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The Prophet's words were true;
  The mouth of Ali is the golden door
  Of Wisdom."
  When his friends to Ali bore
  These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask
  The same until my dying day, the task
  Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well,
  Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

  Bayard Taylor

  Doors, Dying, Tasks

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.130

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• Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

  Karl Kraus

  Experience, Saving, Inheritance

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

  Joseph Conrad

  Intelligence, Sound, Want

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1113, e-artnow

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• Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Being Happy, Spiritual

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• Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the dust manifest. you see the dust whirling, but how can the dust rise by itself? you see the foam, but not the ocean. invoke Him with deeds, not words; for deeds are real and will save you in the infinite-life.

  Rumi

  Real, Islamic, Ocean

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• To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Memories

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

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• These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Men, Merit

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• Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

  John Tillotson

  Two, Understanding, Propositions

  John Tillotson (1819). “The wisdom of being religious”, p.2

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• Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

  Samuel Gridley Howe

  Thinking, Important, Half

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• If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead.

  Thomas Merton

  Money, Writing, Men

  Thomas Merton, Robert Inchausti (2007). “Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing”, p.198, Shambhala Publications

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• Some people are more nice than wise.

  William Cowper

  Wise, Nice, People

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.213

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• You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  God, Wise, Religious

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• The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value

  Marmaduke Pickthall

  Islamic, Legacy, Failing

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• I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

  Nina Totenberg

  Thinking, Age, Levels

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• Whoever is not too wise is wise.
  [Lat., Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.]

  Martial

  Wise, Plus

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• The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
  [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]

  Quintus Ennius

  Wise, Men, Vain

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  Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

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• A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Men, Indispensable

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.296, Island Press

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• International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

  J. William Fulbright

  Education, Peace, Men

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• What you are looking for is what is looking.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Science

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• You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

  Clarence Day

  Inspirational, Life, Feet

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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