W Quotes
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“Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.”
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”
“Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.”
“Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.”
Source: Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
“Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.”
“Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still.”
“Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.”
Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko
“Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it.”
Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko
“Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.”
Source: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury
“Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.”
“Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.”
Source: Sacred Poems
“Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.”
“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”
“Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.”
Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929
“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
Source: The Works of Anton Chekhov
“Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.”
“Wisdom: Knowledge rightly applied. We assimilate lots of knowledge. Whether or not we do anything with that knowledge is a measure of our wisdom. That implies some change ... and change can be difficult.”
“Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. Give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps, to the south and the jungles, to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man.”
“Wise acceptance does not mean we like the situation; it means we have stopped denying it, have stopped being victims of it, have stopped blaming others for it, and are now prepared to improve it.”
“Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
“Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.”
Source: School Education
“Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.”
“Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.”
“Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.”
“Wise are you, indeed... to know what is not possible.”
“Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.”
Source: The Spanish gypsy
“Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.”
Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)
“Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.”
Source: God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Wise decision Maker worry LESS.
Remember hard. Always at the moment. Only at the moment, nothing else matters at the moment, living the moment.”
“Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.”
Source: The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (Second Edition) (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
“Wise girls kiss but never love,
Listen but never believe,
And leave befor they are left.”
“Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.”
Source: Conversations with Yogananda
“Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“Wise in the ways of all such things is Jean Tannen," said Jean. "Wiser by far than most; especially most named Lamora."
"Shut your fat, ugly, inarguably wiser face," said Locke.”
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies
“Wise individuals frequently say very little, but what they do say hits the mark. Such remarks often remain in the mind of the recipient for a long time, possibly a lifetime.”
Source: The Love of Being Loving
“Wise individuals have recorded their past so that fools can meet their tomorrow.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.”
“Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter.”
“Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.”
“Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.”
“Wise is the one who chooses happiness over wisdom.”
“Wise is the one who knows to be fool, Fools are those who identify as intellectual.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Wise is the one who knows to bow before the right person in search of knowledge.”
Source: All For Acceptance
“Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.”
“Wise is the one who learns to dumb it down.”
“Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.”
“Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.”
“Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.”
“Wise it is to comprehend the whole.”