Quotes on Wisdom

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Your prayers are your light; _x000D_ _x000D_ Your devotion is your strength;_x000D_ _x000D_ Sleep is the enemy of both. _x000D_ _x000D_ Your life is the only opportunity that life can give you._x000D_ _x000D_ If you ignore it, if you waste it,_x000D_ _x000D_ You will only turn to dust.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

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

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.