Wisdom Quotes · Page 330

Ideas, Inspiration, Insights - All of that requires 'I' and an open mind.

— Biman Gandhi

Hating people is like throwing stones at the tree which cant give you any fruit.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Commonsense will never come from following your heart; wisdom is only stored in the mind.”

— Shannon L. Alder

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'.

— Catherine DeVrye

“Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.”

— Luis Marques

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

— Socrates

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

— Wendy Carlos

“The vast stores of knowledge that represent the evolving wisdom borne from the scientific mind is proof positive that religion is no…

— Al Stefanelli

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

— Douglas William Jerrold

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly…

— Chanakya

In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is…

— Masao Abe

“Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

“Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.”

— Grace Sara

Wisdom would dictate that a sense of proportion, empathy and balance should drive how the Workers' Party approaches Singapore politics.

— Pritam Singh

Good leaders make wise decisions about which ideas to keep on the bench & which ones to send into the game.

— Anonymous

“It was a net from which it seemed to me, a few hours ago, that there was no possible escape. But he…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic…

— Dean Ornish

Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the…

— Matsuo Basho

“But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so…

— Boethius

“[C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not…

— John Piper

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with…

— Seth Godin

Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom,…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest…

— Plutarch

He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home.

— Vikrant Parsai

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy to die, anyone can die anywhere -- the difficulty lies in living.

— Vikrant Parsai

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

— Franz Grillparzer

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

— Sacha Guitry

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.

— Socrates

Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

— Marshall McLuhan

“When you can't think clearly, climb to the top of your thoughts”

— Benny Bellamacina

“one plus one is two; so the cord of two is better than one.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

— Roger Ascham

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

— Anonymous

My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.

— Jane Goodall

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

— Isaac Barrow

“there some great wisdom to be gained by calibrating exactly how worthless a mind I have?”

— Orson Scott Card

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

— George Bernard Shaw