W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wisdom lies in voluntary finitude and a timely change of heart: until maturity, multiplying the inclusions, up to the limit of natural faculty and moral harmony; afterwards, gladly relinquishing zone after zone of vegetation, and letting the snow-peak of integrity rise to what height it may.”
Source: Realms of Being
“Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.”
Source: The Monkey Grammarian
“Wisdom lies not in analyzing the obvious but rather in ignoring it.”
“Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge
- which quickly becomes outdated -
but in perpetually seeking it.”
“Wisdom lives in silence. Not the wisdom of accumulated information, which is only knowledge, but the wisdom that comes from sitting with experience long enough to understand what it was actually teaching. Hurry gives us events. Silence gives us meaning.”
Source: The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out
“Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.”
“Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.”
“Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.”
“Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.”
“Wisdom married to immortal verse.”
Source: The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem
“Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.”
Source: Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Indian Spirituality
“Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
“Wisdom means multiplying yourself. If you create not one but a hundred of yourself, you will look at things not from one perspective but from a hundred perspectives, you will look at something not once but a hundred times, you will observe something not once but a hundred times!”
“Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.”
“Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.”
“Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.”
“Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.”
Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things
“Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,
Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.”
Source: Candide and The Maid of Orleans
“Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.”
“Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.”
Source: The Story of an African Farm
“Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.”
“Wisdom never requires hopelessness”
“Wisdom` never works when Fate doesn't destine it.”
“Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.”
“Wisdom occurs when intelligence and experience combine into an effective and coherent spontaneous expression.”
Source: 7 Principles of Nature: How We Strayed and How We Return
“Wisdom of the Ages: Do the aliens on the moon pull down their pants and 'earth' their friends for fun?”
“Wisdom of the Ages: "Keystone Pipeline" Conveniently removes the need to speak figuratively about Congress stick a dagger into the heart of America.”
“Wisdom of the ages you seek, lad? I offer but one word: treasure. At what price does this treasure come, you ask, for not all does silver and gold make? If it be treasure you seek then you are a pirate!”
Source: The Pirate Captain, Chronicles of a Legend
“Wisdom of the Rocking Chair
By Don Iannone
Back and forth, and
Back and forth,
Until an answer comes, or
A worry disappears.”
“Wisdom of the Wolf Pup: Know when you need to ask or receive help and surrender to it. Surrendering or letting go does not make you weak or deem you incapable but rather it is an act of honesty and trust. In many ways, like the pups, we are blind in this world and experience will open our eyes, but it is the alchemical transformation of knowledge into wisdom, via experience, that enables us to see. This takes time, patience, reflection, openness and allowance." Rachel S Roberts, WOLF. An inspirational guide to embodying your Inner Wolf.”
Source: Wolf: Untamed. Courageous. Empowered. An Inspirational Guide to Embodying Your Inner Wolf
“Wisdom of today is common sense of tomorrow.”
Source: Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light
“Wisdom of today is the common sense of tomorrow.”
Source: Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light
“Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.”
“Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.”
“Wisdom on its worst day is greater than ignorance on its best day.”
“Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.”
Source: A Sicilian Romance
“Wisdom or personal experience surpasses all books and the knowledge they provide.”
“Wisdom outweighs Foolishness.”
Source: THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY
“Wisdom overcomes fortune.”
“Wisdom plays such a part in life that whatever may happen outside, whatever may be the trend, whatever may be the fashion, whatever may be the people are all changing into, you do not change. You change within.”
“Wisdom plus knowledge equals understanding.”
Source: Made in the Image of God: Understanding the Nature of God and Mankind in a Changing World
“Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.”
“Wisdom, Professor, is the memory of pain refined into guidance.”
— from my upcoming book, on learning, folly, and the fragile art of understanding”
“Wisdom: pure rain landing on a parched mountain, requiring time to percolate deeply, to become a Peaceful and Life-giving spring which reveals it's presence far from where rain was first encountered.”
“Wisdom recognises the value of being wholesome. Wholesomeness is about acting towards achieving well-being in every aspect of our life and contributing from that intention to the people around us and to the world we live in.”
Source: Mindfulness for the Family
“Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.”
“Wisdom requires a flexible mind.”
“Wisdom requires both a way of thinking and acquisition of a body of knowledge gained through such thinking, as well as the personal ability to apply accumulated knowledge to life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls