Wisdom Quotes · Page 218

A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

— Vincent de Paul

“We only see what interests us, and we have only insight in proportion to our sympathy.”

— Anonymous

“You're wiser than your last mistake. Congratulations!”

— Chinonye J. Chidolue

“Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.”

— Angelica Hopes

The worst thing about proverbs and quotations is that the fools make no use of them.

— Vikrant Parsai

“More things in this world have been accomplished in this world by persistence than by wisdom.”

— Elaine Cunningham

“If you are kind to yourself, you are clever. If you are kind to others, you are wise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

There is no wisdom but that which is focused on the fear of God.

— John Calvin

Wise are those who realize that they hold the fate of their love in their hands, and blessed are those who keep…

— Anonymous

“Thus a wise prince will think of ways to keep his citizens of every sort and under every circumstance dependent on the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan…

— Tom Hicks

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

— Victor Hugo

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

— Solomon

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my…

— Vera Wang

“The ideas that move industries forward are not the result of tremendous creative insight but rather of masterful stewardship.”

— Matt Perman

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

— Rumi

To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences.…

— Suzy Kassem

“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary,…

— Jean Jaques Rousseau

Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have…

— George Pattison

“Job is a wisdom book. But not all wisdom books are alike.[42] Proverbs contains instructional literature (discourses and proverbs) that encourage wise…

— Tremper Longman III

[Grace] is given not to make us something other than ourselves but to make us radically ourselves. Grace is given not to…

— John Philip Newell

The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God…

— John Calvin

The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.

— John C. Maxwell

A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.

— Han Fei

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

— Matthew Henry

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

— Philip Pullman

“The good was good and the bad was the beginning of wisdom. (Electric Brae)”

— Andrew Greig

It is better to like what you have than to have what you like.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Finally, we do become wise, but then it's too late”

— Steve Martin

The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.

— Rakim

In temple, in the pubs and in coffins all men are equal.

— Vikrant Parsai

Challenges are the most truthful and strictest of teachers.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Don't mention your move before you make a move.”

— Amit Kalantri

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

— Jim Hightower

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

— Charles R. Swindoll

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

— George Herbert

“The cloth of a person is never a true measure of his wisdom and understanding”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

— Augustus William Hare