Wisdom Quotes - Page 38

• Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Knowledge, Use, Being Wise

  "In a World Of...friends, Foes & Fools". Book by James Merritt, 2008.

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  Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

  Edmund Burke

  Historical, Conservative, Repeats

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• Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  Harper Lee

  Heart, Garden, Tkam

  FaceBook post by Harper Lee from Apr 21, 2015

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• The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Print Media, Media Control

  "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.

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• Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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• There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.322, Courier Corporation

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• Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Ignorance, Mind, Enemy

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 2 : The Creative Power of a Free Civilization, 1960.

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• The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Art, Agitation, Sage

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• The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Praise, Silent

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• He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Silly, Way, Gone

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• When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Yoga, People

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• Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Cry, Streets

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.165

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• Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Gustave Flaubert (1951). “Letters”

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• To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Keeping Secrets, Kept Secrets, Secrecy

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• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

  Carl Jung

  Fun, Truth, Judgement

  "Psychological Types: Or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

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• The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Responsibility, Hands

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.187, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.

  Francois Rabelais

  God, Evil, Soul

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• Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Firsts, Life Is

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• All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  T Shirt, Shirts, Found

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• Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Perfect, Matter

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1841). “The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.3

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• If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

  Pam Brown

  Hope, Integrity, Use

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• Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

  Joan Lunden

  Warrior, Giving, Holding On

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• Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

  Victor Hugo

  Les Mis, Habit, Easy

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

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• And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

  Rowan Williams

  World, Way, Realms

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• Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.

  Bill W.

  Decision, Passing, Indecision

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