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Quotations by Tag
Tag: "WISDOM" Page 1 of 3
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Study the men of old and listen to old men! He is a poor sage who has no wisdom but his own; and a poor scholar who has nothing but his learning. |
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The evening of life brings its Lamp with it." |
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The evening of life brings with it its lamp. |
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The residue of human wisdom, refined by old age, is perhaps the best thing we have. |
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The wisdom of man drives away life's ills, But divine wisdom alone shows us true blessings. Animation is needed in the quest of human wisdom, but the way to divine wisdom is meditation, repose. |
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There is a right of greater wisdom; but no right of greater strength. |
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Wisdom is a science by which we discriminate between things spiritually good and evil. It is the science of sciences, for alone, it can understand the value, the true price, the real uses, the danger, and the potentialities of the soul. |
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Wisdom is repose in light. Happy the minds that are exalted enough to rejoice in its radiance. |
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Wisdom is the strength of the weak. |
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Rule a large country as one would cook a small fish-- |
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. |
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Jugurtha possessed both wisdom in council and valor on the field, qualities not often united in the same person: For the confidence which courage supplies is sometimes damped by foresight; and sometimes foresight is overborne by a rashness, which the virtue should restrain." |
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The madness of the brave is the wisdom of life. |
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Activity is the only road to knowledge. |
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. |
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Not pleasure, but freedom from pain is what the wise man will aim at. |
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. |
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I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean. |
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In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same. |
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Every poet, I suppose, should fall madly in love at least once in her life, so that she may come to know the shadow side of the feminine human experience, plumb the depth of her own vulnerability and emerge the wiser. |
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