"Wisdom is not a question of learning facts……" — Nilakanta Sri Ram
"Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living."
—
Nilakanta Sri Ram
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
15 Quotes by Nilakanta Sri Ram
Nilakanta Sri Ram has 15 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.
-
Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is…
-
Ideal Love, stepped down to the level of the practical, day-to-day life, must mean the service of each to all…
-
Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.
-
What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate,…
-
Each must discover his own way in life, and that way lies in his heart. Let him delve deeply into…
-
The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions.
-
We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives,…
-
Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.
-
What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.
-
He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself,…
-
What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.
See all 15 quotes by Nilakanta Sri Ram »
More Acquired Quotes
This quote is filed under Acquired Quotes,
one of 524 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
-
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something…
— Franklin P. Adams
-
The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first…
— H. Rap Brown
-
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly…
— Smedley Butler
-
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
-
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
— Andrew Carnegie
-
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
— Willa Cather
-
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
— Lord Chesterfield
-
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
— Lord Chesterfield
-
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
— Kate Chopin
-
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
-
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
— Emile M. Cioran
See all 524 Acquired Quotes »