W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wisdom in groups emerges as a product of commitments we make with ourselves and to each other. These stances are not abstract rules but tangible practices that must be renewed each time we are in groups. They are essentially commitments and attitudes that foster collaboration and positive collective action.”
“Wisdom in groups is earned by gathering useful data, exploring diverse perspectives, respecting different viewpoints, and then shaped through critical reflection on behalf of tangible outcomes.”
“Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.”
Source: Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
“Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.”
Source: Job, a Comedy of Justice
“Wisdom increases and is a burden. I know too many people and why I should love them, and the thought that I love them imperfectly is a constant vexation. My half-life continues. The great error of the American condition: to forget that people are humanity--I don't mean in the cliche sense--but are a part of the whole stream of history, and, whatever else they may be in the Here and Now, should be respected and considered, and loved as far as possible and not thought of as students, colleagues, anonymous neighbors.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Wisdom increases when the love of Allah increases in your heart.”
“Wisdom involves appreciating the things that we didn’t achieve as much as we appreciate those that we did.”
“Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.”
“Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when realization has tinctured and transmuted all attitudes and opinions. A wise man is one who has experienced wisdom, wisdom in this sense being a mystical experience.”
Source: First Principles of Philosophy: The Science of Perfection
“Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.”
“Wisdom is a dreadfully wonderful gift,giving you great insight but terrible pain that you learn from.”
“Wisdom is a drop of rain which clouds made by God.”
“Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.”
“Wisdom is a gift from Allah for a person who carries pain in his heart for so long.”
“Wisdom is a great cause that radiates from foolishness. To be wise, one must first be a fool.”
“Wisdom is a great prophet, faith is a great warrior, knowledge is a great sage, and virtue is a great priest.”
“Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation”
Source: The Sun My Heart
“Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.”
“Wisdom is a mother;
proverbs are her offspring.”
“Wisdom is a mountain capped with snow. I've yet to meet the person who's given it a hug.”
Source: There Are Rivers in the Sky
“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
“Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“Wisdom is a state of stability and unconcern. It is a balanced confidence based on stable reasons. Wisdom is not a talent or power sourced at your birth. It is the power of ruling over all the other powers you have born with.”
“Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels.”
“Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.”
“Wisdom is all about the simple, often tiny, obvious things, done consistently, one at a time.”
Source: The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist
“Wisdom is all the things left to you after all the ports you visited in your life!”
“Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.”
“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”
“Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.”
“Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.”
“Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.”
“Wisdom is an endless ocean that we all need to drink. Your age shouldn't be your first excuse for behaving immorally and ignorantly in life.”
“Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.”
Source: Walking with the Women of the Bible: A Devotional Journey Through God's Word
“Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.”
“Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.”
Source: 21 Days to Master Success and Inner Peace
“Wisdom is being able to act rightfully, beyond the realm of knowledge.”
“Wisdom is being able to see the world for what it is, rather than what you want it to be.”
Source: The Angel of Innisfree
“Wisdom is bestowed by the Creator.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Wisdom is better found in the quiet. Tree meditations dull the noises of society.”
Source: The Magic of Trees
“Wisdom is better than an inheritance;
knowledge is worth more than gold.”
“Wisdom is better than silver and gold”
“Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.”
Source: Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher
“Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.”
Source: Letters of Jane Austen: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“Wisdom is close at hand; only intellectual humility can grasp it.”
“Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.”
“Wisdom is dead. Long live information.”
“WISDOM IS dependent upon knowledge. Where there is complete ignorance there can be no wisdom, no knowledge of the right thing to do. Man’s knowledge is comparatively limited and so his wisdom must be small, unless he can connect his mind with a knowledge greater than his own and draw from it, by inspiration, the wisdom that his own limitations deny him. Only God knows all truth; therefore only God can have Real wisdom or know the right thing to do at all times, and man can receive wisdom from God. Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.”
Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
“Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on”
“Wisdom is easier when you fear God. Understanding comes when you shun all evil. God helps those who help themselves. I guess its just God's way of teaching you to stop being silly and just grow up”