Wisdom Quotes - page 93

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness. (Ali)
On the whole, a man who denies the existence of the effects arranged according to the causes in the question of arts, or whose wisdom cannot understand it, then he has no knowledge of the art of its Maker. View quote
Averroes
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Speech after long silence it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead ... That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song Bodily decrepitude is wisdom young We loved each other and were ignorant. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance? View quote
William Butler Yeats
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.'' View quote
William Butler Yeats
As Man steps down in amiable wisdom To give himself what no one else can give: His liberty. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. View quote
Doris Lessing
Insistence on the postulate of complete logical clarification would make science impossible. We are reminded... of the old wisdom that one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent. View quote
Werner Heisenberg
By suffering comes wisdom. View quote
Aeschylus
He has the wisdom of an old man, but his body is at its prime. (Aeschylus)
Zeus, who guided mortals to be wise, has established his fixed law- wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, so men against their will learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods seated on their solemn thrones- such grace is harsh and violent. View quote
Aeschylus
Chorus Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory against our pleasure we are temperate. View quote
Aeschylus
By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history. Our science and our technology have posed us a profound question. Will we learn to use these tools with wisdom and foresight before it's too late? View quote
Carl Sagan
Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient. View quote
Carl Sagan
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. View quote
Jane Fonda
Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth, are said to discover prodigious parts and wit, to speak things that surprise and astonish; strange, so many hopeful princes* and so many shameful kings ! If they happen to die young, they would have been prodigies of wisdom and virtue : if they live, they are often prodigies indeed, but of another sort. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations. View quote
Haile Selassie
Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others. The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations. View quote
Haile Selassie
Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions. View quote
Ajahn Brahm
Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl? (William Blake)
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom... You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough. View quote
William Blake
The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Satan found pleasure in praise and in the exercise of his grace; he loved to hear his wisdom and his power belauded. View quote
Anatole France