Wisdom Quotes · Page 158

He who knows that he doesn't know, knows what he needs to know.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

If you happen to come across your lost loved one, use this time your brain instead of heart.

— Vikrant Parsai

“We built machines to answer every question, but forgot to ask what it means to be human.”

— Lawrence Nault

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

— Quintus Ennius

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

— Edmund Burke

A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.

— Edwin W. Rice

Getting all the things down game-management wise, that's what I want to excel at.

— Nick Foles

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Nonviolence is often the path of wisdom, but not always. Love and passive resistance are wonderfully effective weapons against some kinds of…

— Freeman Dyson

“You can become the greatest personality in your community by developing the sagacity of humility, teachability, prosperity-mentality and accountability.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

— Sidney Hook

“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?”

— Dejan Stojanovic

There are people in the world who sometimes waste their time trying to fix the thing which is not broken.

— Vikrant Parsai

The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.

— Brian Tracy

“He who waits for permission to live will find himself buried with the others who did the same.”

— David Maze

Now when you meditate, try to meditate in a sustained way, first of all sustain it. Then you find that you are…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does…

— Anonymous

“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without…

— Ayn Rand

A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and…

— Evelyn Underhill

“Our heart calls us one way, the mind pulls us the other way, and we do the opposite. We cannot find peace…

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

“I give thanks for the wise qualities of the evergreen trees that have stood by me this day: may you show me…

— Maggie Oman

“Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Even at the farthest reaches of empathy, we do not and cannot share the lived experience of another. We can never fully…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.

— Samael Aun Weor

“Some wisdom lives in your body before your mind can explain it. Trust what your bones know.”

— Lawrence Nault

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

— Anonymous

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

— Herodotus

“Get this through your head — you are not responsible for other people's happiness.”

— Bryant McGill

“Focus on the win and you lose the battle, focus on the battle and you win.”

— Toni Sorenson

“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

— Heraclitus

The right criticism is to criticize others in order to develop yourself, isn't it?

— Tivea

Don't hate me because I have a personality. Hate me because I have an attitude.

— Vikrant Parsai

We all want to be great, but we don't want people to know we want to be great.

— Vikrant Parsai

God talks incessantly. But, as it turns out, mankind is deaf.

— Don Williams Jr

If you raise your daughter as a diamond, she will become a glass as a wife.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.”

— Amit Kalantri

Love is like hunting, you can begin when you like and stop when you can.

— Vikrant Parsai

“The life you want is a manifestation of self-realization.”

— Bryant McGill