Wisdom Quotes - Page 24

• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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• Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

  Herbert Hoover

  Knowing, Next, Knowing What To Do

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• In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Answers, Examination

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Phrases and Philosophies

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• Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Wise, Opposites

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.461, 谷月社

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• The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Faith, Religious, Ignorance

  "Arpilei Tohar" by Abraham Isaac Kook, (p. 2), 1914.

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• The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Men, Appreciate

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.109, BookBaby

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• Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

  Augustus William Hare

  World, Consulting, Stills

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.254

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• Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

  Aeschylus

  Prosperity, Enough, Mortals

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• I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Justice without wisdom is impossible.

  James Anthony Froude

  Justice, Impossible

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.455, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.

  Rumi

  Rain, Limitless, Source

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• Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lasting Happiness, Knowing, Glory

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.138

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• We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Sympathy, Patience

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• The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

  Samuel Richardson

  Fool, Wisest

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• It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.

  Peter Shepherd

  Childhood, Mindfulness, Too Late

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• With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.

  Dalai Lama

  Relationship, Sister, Wise

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• To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.

  Al-Ghazali

  Mother, Children, Islamic

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• With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

  Edmund Waller

  Book, Practice, Taught

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.168

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• I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.

  Lucy Grealy

  Truth, Hard Work, Thinking

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Selfish People, Greed

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.61, First Avenue Editions

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• The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

  Jean Bodin

  Learning, History, Study

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• Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Body, Teach

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.232, Penguin

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• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

  Chanakya

  Friendship, Happiness, People

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• Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Buddhism

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