Wisdom Quotes · Page 326

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

— Mary Baker Eddy

People live in the world but I live in the word.

— Vikrant Parsai

Giving advice to the fool is like sowing water in the ocean.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works.”

— Lew Wallace

A smile only takes a moment, but the memory behind that smile lasts forever.

— Anonymous

“You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Your feet will never direct you to a place where your is not there.”

— Moroaswi Tumiso Victor

“The only people with six packs are teenagers and drug addicts.”

— Chael Sonnen

“The words of the wise are like cattle prods—painful but helpful. Their collected sayings are like a nail-studded stick with which a…

— Ecclesiastes 12 11

“no such affluence of wisdom and knowledge, and truth and holiness, could flow from any other source than Deity,”

— Octavius Winslow

To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which…

— Vikrant Parsai

You need more than your own wisdom in rearing [your children]. You need the help of the Lord. Pray for that help…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this…

— Socrates

Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In…

— Saint Augustine

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

— Horace

“The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of…

— Emily Post

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their…

— H. P. Blavatsky

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become…

— Rowan Williams

“And here you will stay, Gandalf the Grey, and rest from journeys. For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman the Ring-maker, Saruman…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once…

— Sophocles

The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other,…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“The wise men know what wicked things are written on the sky; They trim sad lamps, they touch sad strings, hearing the…

— G.K. Chesterton

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less…

— Thomas Jefferson

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

— Sally Quinn

Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance.

— John Nolte

May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.

— Rabia Basri

Never let the things you want make you forget the things you already have!..

— Anonymous

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

— John Cheever

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

— William Lloyd Garrison

If you do not honor your parents, your children will not honor you.

— Vikrant Parsai

Don't be fooled by your emptiness, there's so much room for happiness.

— Anonymous

“Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.”

— Idries Shah

Too many people who write quotes think they are one copy-paste away from being bright minds.

— Anonymous

“Wisdom is better than folly, the way the light is better than the darkness.”

— J.S. Drangsholt

“But now I know that youth isn't waiting for you on the other side of wisdom.”

— Adriana Trigiani

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your misery will cause you to grow and for see the future.”

— Euginia Herlihy

Wisdom is knowing that I'm nothing. Love is knowing that I am everything

— Heritier Ndele

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

— Dalai Lama