Wisdom Quotes - Page 29

• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Success, Stress

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• There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Friendship, Wise, True Friend

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from May 18, 2015

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• Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Believe, Would Be, Sage

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 176, 1647.

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• I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

  John Buchan

  Life, Believe, Passion

  John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume”, p.1830, e-artnow

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• It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

  Philippe Quinault

  Wise, Being Wise, Wiser

  "Armide". 1686.

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• The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Wealth, Mankind

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Beautiful, Islamic, Heart

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• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

  Edmund Burke

  Evil, Liberty, Vices

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• The need of the hour is that your life should be revolutionised.
  The revolution should not be an individual one but a collective one.
  The change should be concerning your belief, your morals, your actions, your dealings, your decisions, and your efforts.
  Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

  Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi

  Islamic, Mean, Effort

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• The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Powerful, Tears

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 625

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• In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being

  Malcolm X

  Islamic, Cities, Years

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• Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.

  Sophocles

  Pride, Men, Age

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.177

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• The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Men, Pay, Fool

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.73

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• Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.

  John Balguy

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mind, Limits, Madness

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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• They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

  William Cowper

  Weed, Truth, Honey

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.124

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• There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspiring, Philosophy, Individual Morality

  "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883 - 1891.

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• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.27, Broadway Books

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• No one is wise at all times.

  Pliny the Elder

  Wise, All Time

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82, Historia Naturalis, VII. 41. 2, 1922.

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• The wise man is seldom prudent.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Wise, Men, Prudent

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• The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Wise, Children, Father

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.360

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• Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Rocks, Giving, Perfect

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1838). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.9

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• For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.

  William Mountford

  Prayer, Soul, Spirit

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.34

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• Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Heart, Men, Light

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.118

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• wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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