Wisdom Quotes - page 14

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. (Emanuel Swedenborg)
If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. View quote
Henry Miller
In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil! View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. View quote
Maya Angelou
Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this would entail in the losing of all Italy, then the course of the war, if not the outcome, would have been quite different. View quote
Christopher Vokes
I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before. (Jonas Salk)
The beginning of all wisdom is acknowledgement of facts. View quote
Juho Kusti Paasikivi
Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. View quote
Ted Cruz
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. View quote
Abigail Adams
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom. View quote
Joseph Addison
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. View quote
William Saroyan
An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre." View quote
L. Frank Baum
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness... View quote
Robert E. Howard
There is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete and everybody is capable of everything. View quote
Joseph Heller
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you. (Orson Scott Card)
There are two ways of confronting the country's problems. One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism. View quote
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit. View quote
Chen Shui-bian