Wisdom Quotes - Page 40

• Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

  George Iles

  Science, Doubt, Beginnings And Ends

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

  Joseph Henry Jackson

  Censorship In Books, Might, Banned

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• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

  Socrates

  Family, Witty, Knowing Nothing

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• Wisdom: Knowledge rightly applied. We assimilate lots of knowledge. Whether or not we do anything with that knowledge is a measure of our wisdom. That implies some change ... and change can be difficult.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Success, Knowledge, Decision

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• Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Shining, Know How

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• Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

  Athenaeus

  Inspirational, Greatness, Doe

  Athenaeus (1854). “The Deipnosophists Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus: With an Appendix of Poetical Fragments, Rendered Into English Verse by Various Authors and a General Index : in Three Volumes”, p.1003

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• Politics make me sick

  William Howard Taft

  Witty, Sick, Presidential

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• The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Path, Being Afraid

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• Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.1042, Delphi Classics

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• In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Letting Go, Running, Government

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• Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Forgiveness, Fun, Faults

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Smell, Track

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.31

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• But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Men, Unity, Vision

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• Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.

  Lev L. Spiro

  Wise, Jobs, Food

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• It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

  William Penn

  Wise, Secret, Honest

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.828

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• One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

  Alice Walker

  Hair, Understanding, Growth

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• The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

  Norm MacDonald

  Folly

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• I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

  Ron White

  Wise, Today, Tomorrow

  "Ron White: They Call Me Tater Salad". TV Special, June 27, 2004.

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• The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Men, Talkative

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Hardship, Tongue

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• I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Hope, Religious

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  "The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king".

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• Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

  Mark Nepo

  Wise, Heart, Breathing

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

  William James

  Wise, Acceptance, Concern

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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