Wisdom Quotes · Page 167

The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.

— Amit Kalantri

Fear often looks like wisdom to those in unbelief.

— Bill Johnson

“Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.”

— Felix Frankfurter

Life is a continuous learning process where mistakes are the terror teathers.

— Anonymous

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

— Suze Orman

“Working in dysfunctional companies was an excruciating experience.”

— Steven Magee

It is common to follow the path of others; it is courageous to create your own.

— Vikrant Parsai

“One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.”

— Idries Shah

You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do…

— Nirmala Srivastava

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

— Abdullah ibn Mubarak

There are never failures -- only gained experience, wisdom, knowledge and lessons in life. Michael travis

— Anonymous

“true insight does not consist of the acquisition of information but comes from mastering our egotism and greed.5”

— Karen Armstrong

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

— Vernon Howard

“If you are learned, you have one leg; intelligent, you have two legs; shrewd, you have three legs; wise, you have four…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

— Neil Gaiman

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tradegy for the poor.”

— Sholom Aleichem

A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with…

— Lisa Randall

“When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in…

— Hilary Austen

“Worry is refusing the given. Today’s care, not tomorrow’s, is the responsibility given to us, apportioned in the wisdom of God. Often…

— Leslie Ludy

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights…

— Robert Keith Leavitt

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for…

— Walter Isaacson

It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions,…

— Paul Goodman

“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which…

— Steven Pinker

“A wise man once said that the best definition of insanity was performing the same action over and over again, expecting different…

— Robert J. Wiersema

“knowledge is our enviroment..wisdome, is how we perceive our environment".”

— Daryavesh Rothmensch

“Whatever you experience is what you must feel.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Knowledge without wisdom is like a beautiful lady without morals”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

— Jean Cocteau

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

— Amit Kalantri

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

— David Starr Jordan

This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Obstacles in your life are not in your way, they are the way.”

— John Bruna

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No matter how strong you are, you always find someone stronger.

— Vikrant Parsai

I always have my best thoughts on the toilet, so thats where that sage wisdom was coming from.

— Charlie Day

“The hidden mist of forgotten truth is not for the mundane eye to see... ☥”

— Luis Marques

Your happiness is determined by something you do, not something you know.

— Vikrant Parsai

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

— Josh Billings

“Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality.”

— Bryant McGill