The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.
Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.
Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.
