Wise Quotes

4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors

If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold… — Reuben Archer Torrey
PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or happy,… — Jonathan Moyo
The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise. — Laozi
And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you… — John Holmes
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the… — Winston Churchill
Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire… — Lorenzo Snow
What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future - a future in which there is no expiation except through… — Horatio Dresser
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded… — Robert Baden-Powell
A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain. — Barbara De Angelis
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For… — Edsger Dijkstra
For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when… — John Milton
A word to the wise ain't... — Bill Cosby
Priority-wise, it simply makes sense to take care of yourself before you start searching for a higher meaning. You aren't much good to anyone else… — Scott Adams
When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your… — Linji Yixuan
The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of… — Kenny Smith
My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more.… — Zhuangzi
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not… — Zhuangzi
Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in… — Marianne Williamson
A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he… — Sydney J. Harris
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad. — Seneca the Younger

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