Quotes Tagged "wisdom"

To struggle against darkness is not to blunder ignorantly; intelligence is needed to generate right action.

We can't just restrict ourselves to what we know, because we are talking about the unknown.

Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.

The intriguing placidity from the slothful pace of a snail is truly very peaceful. Our world is in need of this calmness to pacify itself

Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.

Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly about illness, disasters, and all the other fears which run rampant in the world.

For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘great moments of life,’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; …

We always need a motivation, in order for us to meet our full potential at work.

Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.

Although history may therefore seem like a series of inevitable events, the actual future is seldom foreseen.

Be your friend’s true friend. Return gift for gift. Repay laughter with laughter again but betrayal with treachery.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

The greatest solution of all is to live and work in partnership with yourself, your family and friends, your work and community, your nation, your world, nature, and spirit.