Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Wisdom.
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced. In a world that has long been terrorized by fratricidal Sky-God religions, the ascendance of Buddhism would surely be a welcome development.
Sam Harris
And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.
Rachel Hartman
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
William Hazlitt
By the Quiet Moment, if you want to be woken by emptiness, Just open your mind, and your heart will meet something... it always has something there.
Suka
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used
Dr. Carl Sagan
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.
Elbert Hubbard
In the study of the profession to which he had looked forward all his life he found irritation and vacuity as well as serene wisdom; he saw no one clear path to Truth but a thousand paths to a thousand truths far-off and doubtful. ~ Ch. 2
Sinclair Lewis
In the silence, if you want to hear any voice of it; Just open your mind, and your heart will say something... it always say something.
Time is our most precious asset...We should spend it wisely
Michael Levy
Wisdom and prudence are always recompensed.
Sophie Segur
Tak ada brahmana angkuh. Mereka hanya lebih mengerti, lebih tahu daripada orang yang menganggap pengetahuan dan ilmu sebagai keangkuhan.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.
Mollie Marti
A person is a person through other persons.None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
Desmond Tutu
Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!
K.M. Johnson
a problem well put is half solved.
John Dewey
Purity of heart is what enables us to see.
Pope Benedict XVI
Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners...
Meredith Duran
For this is Wisdom; to love, to liveTo take what fate, or the Gods may give.To ask no question, to make no prayer,To kiss the lips and caress the hair,Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flowTo have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go!
Laurence Hope
Not what happens to youBut how you accept itIs of paramount importance.
Sri Chinmoy
The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself.
Daphne Delacroix